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The good news was that Nicklas Grossmann did a little bit more today at Skate Zone, though he did not fully participate in all practice drills. The Flyers injury paranoia has reached such extremes that even veterans like Grossmann and fearful of saying something wrong. By the time Game 1 of the third round comes this weekend – likely Sunday – he will have had 11 days from the time he was con

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Tonight we finally get to eliminate two potential opponents for the Flyers in the second round. Over the years, I’ve heard players say, if you’re going to win the Stanley Cup, you need to beat the best. Which is why I’ve been hoping for the FLyers to get a match-up before it’s over with the NY Rangers. They were the Beast of the East for most of the regular season, then stumbled in the last

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Sometimes, Flyers fans are simply blind with passion. You had to be blind to think for one minute that Marc-Andre Fleury didn’t steal Game 5 for the Penguins. Or that Ilya Bryzgalov lost the game for you. Fleury was better and made the critical stops to give his team a win. Finally, we had a playoff game that resembled a “true” playoff game where defensive aspects were present and where

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Make no mistake about tonight’s Game 4 at Wells Fargo Center. While the FLyers admit they never thought they’d be in position to sweep the Pittsburgh Penguins, now that they are, they don’t want to give them any reason to think they can come back in this series. They want to end if tonight and not chance another game in Pittsburgh on Friday.

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Eklund asks the question as to whether respect has left the game of hockey. I think the resounding answer is … yes. And I don’t think what transpired Sunday in Philly is anything to tip the scales in that direction.

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Jaromir Jagr was looking for a word to describe the performance from rookie center Sean Couturier in Game 2 against the Penguins. “Awesome?” he asked.

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Here’s the best of pre-game quotes leading into tonight: PGH players say they have to do a better job of finding Evgeni Malkin on the ice: “We didn’t create enough chances by breaking the puck out,” Chris Kunitz said. “We were maybe batting a bunch of pucks toward each other, but we were not making crisp, clean plays and giving us possession in the neutral zone. “That’s where Ge

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