GAME-IN-REVIEW: FLYERS 2 – PANTHERS 1
It wasn’t very pretty, but the Flyers gladly skated off with two points last night after downing the Florida Panthers, 2-1, in Craig Berube’s head coaching debut. Philadelphia benefited from a brilliant goaltending performance by Steve Mason, who stopped 33 of the 34 shots fired his way.
Mason made a pair of first period goals by Brayden Schenn and Br
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GAME PREVIEW (8:15 AM EDT)
With new head coach Craig Berube and new assistant bench/PK coach Ian Laperriere behind the bench for their first game in their new roles, the Philadelphia Flyers (0-3-0) will look for their first win of the 2013-14 season. Tonight, the club takes on Kevin Dineen’s Florida Panthers (1-1-0) at the Wells Fargo Center.
Game time is 7 p.m. eastern. The game will be te
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GAME-IN-REVIEW: HURRICANES 2 – FLYERS 1
It is bad enough that the Philadelphia Flyers have started out the 2013-14 regular season with an 0-3-0 record after losing, 2-1, to the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday. Three-game stumbles can happen to any team, but is the WAY these Flyers lose games that is most disturbing. Coupled with the club’s 1-5-1 preseason record and missing the playoffs last year
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FLYERS VS. HURRICANES: GAME PREVIEW (3:30 AM EDT)
Looking for their first one in three tries during the 2013-14 regular season, the Philadelphia Flyers (0-2-0) travel to Raleigh, NC, to take on the Carolina Hurricanes (0-0-1). Game time is at 5 p.m. eastern. The game will be televised locally on CSN Philly and nationally in Canada on NHL Network Canada.
This is the first of four meetings thi
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GAME PREVIEW (12:15 AM EDT)
Coming off an opening night loss in which the team played generally solid hockey for two periods, the Philadelphia Flyers (0-1-0) will look to get on the winning track when they take to the road to take on the Montreal Canadiens (0-1-0) at the Bell Centre. Game time is at 7 p.m. eastern. The match will be televised locally on CSN Philly and nationally in Canada on th
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Amid all of the positive signs engendered by the Dallas Stars’ 5-0-2 preseason, there was one nagging and lingering issue from last season that popped up several times: the Stars had some trouble slamming the door when they held a one-goal lead in the third period.
That problem came right back to the forefront on opening night of the 2013-14 regular season. Dallas saw a 2-1 lead vanish in the t
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FRIDAY QUICK HITS
* The Flyers made a somewhat surprising roster move on Thursday, returning 2012 first-round pick Scott Laughton to the OHL’s Oshawa Generals one night after he was a healthy scratch on opening night. In his place, the club recalled veteran pro Kris Newbury from the Phantoms.
Laughton was stuck in a tough position this year. He has little to gain from a fourth season in the
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GAME SYNOPSIS
In last season’s lockout-shortened regular season, 25 percent (12 of 48) of the Flyers games entered the third period tied. The team went 4-8-0 in those games, capturing an anemic eight of a possible 24 points that were within their grasp.
Unfortunately for Philadelphia, they got the 2013-14 regular season off on the same note, dropping a 3-1 decision to the Toronto Maple Lea
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GAME PREVIEW 9:00 AM EDT
Coming off a poor preseason and a highly disappointing campaign last season, the Philadelphia Flyers (0-0-0) are under pressure to get the 2013-14 season off to a good start. The team will have the opportunity to start things on a positive note tonight when the Flyers play host to the Toronto Maple Leafs (1-0-0) at the Wells Fargo Center.
Game time tonight is 7:30 p.
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SHOULD FLYERS CARRY EIGHT DEFENSEMEN THIS SEASON?
The Philadelphia Flyers currently have the NHL’s most expensive defense corps. Entering the 2013-14 season, the team’s top seven defensemen — Kimmo Timonen, Braydon Coburn, Luke Schenn, Mark Streit, Nicklas Grossmann, Andrej Meszaros and Erik Gustafsson — eat up a combined 43 percent ($27.85 million) of the NHL maximum $64.3 million salary cap
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