MONDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sunday’s Results

*Wayne Simmonds broke his tournament-long scoring drought with a first period power play goal in Canada’s 2-1 win over the Czech Republic. Jeff Skinner broke a 1-1 tie early in the third period with the game-winning goal. Flyers defenseman Luke Schenn was ejected from the game on a checking from behind major and game misconduct w

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SUNDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Saturday’s Results

* Oliver Lauridsen reportedly suffered a groin pull in Denmark’s 4-1 loss to undefeated Switzerland. The injury happened in the second period. Lauridsen skated just one minute in the middle period, and did not return to the game. Lauridsen played 5:11 in the first period. He was on the ice for Luca Cunti’s power play goal that

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SATURDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Friday’s Results

* Team Canada had little trouble dispatching Belarus by a 4-1 score. The top line of Claude Giroux (power play goal, two assists) centering Steven Stamkos (power play goal, one assist) and Andrew Ladd (power play goal, one assist) was too much for the Belarusians to handle. Ryan O’Reilly opened the scoring for Team Canada with

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FRIDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thursday’s Results

* Team Canada (4-0-1) had little difficulty dispatching Team Sweden (3-2-0) by a 3-0 score in front of a disappointed audience at Stockholm’s Globe Arena. A first-period power play blast by Steven Stamkos was supplemented by second period even strength goals by Flyers defenseman Luke Schenn and Jordan Staal. Flyers forward Matt

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THURSDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Yesterday’s Results

* Team USA (3-1-0) put in an outstanding 60-minute performance to down tournament co-host Team Finland (3-1-0) by a 4-1 score at Helsinki’s Hartwall Arena. Craig Smith tallied a hat trick for the Americans, while Stephen Gionta scored a beautiful goal that put a 3-1 stranglehold on the game after it entered the third period

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WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Yesterday’s Results

* He had a couple good saves and a couple of head-scratching moments, but the bottom line for Ilya Bryzgalov was that he was the winning goaltender in Russia’s 5-3 win over Team USA yesterday. Bryzgalov stopped 19 of 22 shots. Two of the three goals he allowed were funky ones to give up.

Team USA’s first goal, which tie

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Gustafsson Starring for Sweden at Worlds

The selection of Flyers defenseman Erik Gustafsson for Sweden’s World Championship team came as a surprise to some in his native country. The 24-year-old, who has dressed in 60 NHL games and had no previous national team experience at either the junior or senior levels, has thus far rewarded the faith shown in him by SIF (the Swedish Ice Hockey Federatio

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FLYERS AT 2013 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: MONDAY UPDATES

SUNDAY RECAP

* In their first game at the World Championships, Team Canada had to scramble to recover from a bad first period against Denmark. The Canadians weren’t quite as fortunate against Switzerland yesterday, settling for one point in a 3-2 shootout loss.

Philadelphia defenseman Luke Schenn led all players on Team Canada with

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2013 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: FLYERS UPDATES

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS

* Russia had little trouble dispatching Latvia by a 6-0 score. Ilya Bryzgalov earned a 15-save shutout.

* Denmark threw a scare into Canada, holding a 1-0 lead and holding even in shots through the first intermission and early portion of the second period. Two closely spaced second period goals for Canada turned the tide o

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IIHF World Championship Updates

* Coming off a breakout season for the Flyers in the NHL, Jakub Voracek picked right up where he left off as he joined Team Czech Republic for its opening game at the 2013 IIHF World Championships. With the Czechs on 5-on-3 power play midway through the first period, Voracek skated in from the right half boards, received a pass from Radim Vbrata and ripped the pu

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