After surprising almost every single hockey fan by making the playoffs this season (and winning a series), the Philadelphia Flyers are looking to take another step forward. We already know that they have a young core in place with some even younger and possibly better pieces still developing into becoming true top-of-the-lineup NHL talent. But, general manager Danny Briere might look to accelerate things a little bit by adding some more experienced players to the roster and truly becoming a th...
Carl Grundstrom spent most of the season with the Philadelphia Flyers in a reduced role that saw him playing most of his time in the bottom six. Interestingly enough, he never really had consistent linemates throughout the season, as the most consistently used grouping he was involved in actually came with Matvei Michkov and Noah Cates– though he spent plenty of time with Rodrigo Abols as well. That’s just life in the bottom two lines, as they’re the most likely skaters to be recycled and rota...
*We know that Dan Vladar is going to get a contract extension at some point — he’s earned one, after all. But the details are starting to get flushed out and if the rumors are correct, then here’s hoping Vladdy Daddy isn’t a one season wonder. [ BSH ]
*Related, the Inky’s annual Flyers fan polling has revealed which players You People want to see back and which you don’t care that much about at all. We love to hear Opinions! [ Inquirer ]
*While we’re talking about which players we li...
The Philadelphia Flyers will have some business to do this summer. They have a couple key restricted free agents in Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale that could be locked up to long-term deals as this team starts to solidify their core moving forward. There’s the 2026 NHL Draft and free agency suddenly happening just a month from now. Heck, we might even see some trades happen with the winger logjam that is currently happening on the roster.
But one piece of business that has been at the f...
Denver Barkey wasn’t supposed to be part of the plan. He began his first professional season this year in the American Hockey League with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, after a storied junior career with the London Knights compelled the Flyers to take him with 95th overall pick in 2023.
After the diminutive forward put up 16 points in his first 26 games in the AHL, and Tyson Foerster went down with injury in early-December, Barkey was one of the names called up to try and fill the gaping ho...
*Well, the Western Conference is set. Man, what the heck happened to the Avs?! Yeesh. [ NHL.com ] *Evidently, the Flyers are set to get a brand new third jersey and we’ve compiled everything we know so far at this likely-to-be-disappointing development. [ BSH ]
*Phantoms head coach John Snowden sat down with The Local Sports Media to talk about the state of the Flyers farm and the players he’s got some excitement about. [ Inquirer ]
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It’s something that every single hockey fan can get excited about and interested in: Potential new jerseys that your favorite team is going to be wearing next season.
For the upcoming 2026-27 season, the NHL is going to be unveiling a league-wide “Hometown Remix” campaign to give each team an alternate sweater to wear throughout the season. While the description is so vague — certainly more mysterious than the previous “Reverse Retro” jerseys that were fairly easy to imagine as a re-desig...
Alex Bump was scoring well, if unsustainably, for the Flyers in his debut stint. What his shooting habits can tell us about how he can refine his process.
*There was a lot to like in Rasmus Ristolainen’s season, but the biggest piece of all is the fact that we finally, finally, got to see Playoff Risto. [ BSH ]
*Rodrigo Abols played his part well through his short season as well, but his status beyond this season remains something of a question mark. [ BSH ]
*Shifting to the future though, we’re digging into some young free agents the Flyers might be interested in targeting later this summer. [ BSH ]
*And, in our next installment ...
Each year, July 1 is free agent frenzy in the National Hockey League. Teams look to upgrade their rosters by signing unrestricted free agents, often to long-term deals that might be considered overpays. Meanwhile, teams that still own the player’s rights and are pending restricted free agents, negotiate on new contracts or, at worst, extend qualifying offers to retain their rights. But somewhere between the UFA and RFA divide there’s a slight crack where a third category of player can sometime...
On May 22nd in 2010, Montreal Canadiens blueliner Marc-Andre Bergeron saved an empty net goal with 2 minutes remaining in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Flyers sophomore forward Claude Giroux found the Habs empty net 36 seconds later to secure a 3-0 win. Philadelphia won the series 4-1.
That's today in NHL history.
Rasmus Ristolainen has been somewhat of a lightning rod for criticism of the Flyers’ front office– an easy target given his struggles to stay on the ice . This year proved difficult again for the fifth-year Flyer defenseman, as he managed just 44 games after missing the team’s first 31 of the season due to his ruptured triceps tendon. Credit to Ristolainen, though, as he would play almost the entire rest of the season, logging pretty big minute totals through two playoff rounds in his first tr...
Rodrigo Abols is a feel-good story for the Philadelphia Flyers that might have now come to an unfortunate end.
Despite being drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in 2016, Abols did not officially break into the NHL until the Flyers signed him to a quick little contract two summers ago, just to see if he can be anything — because who wouldn’t want a 6-foot-4 Latvian in your bottom six? He worked his way up after starting in the AHL and ended up playing in 64 games over two seasons for the Flye...
*The Flyers are facing a looming logjam on their back end, and we have to wonder, does this mean Emil Andrae could be on his way out? [ BSH ]
*It’s one of the many big questions and issues that the Flyers are going to tackle in this sneaky major offseason ahead of them. [ Inquirer ]
*Another area potentially in need of addressing is the goaltending position, and the Flyers won’t have a shortage of potential trade partners, should they opt to go that route. [ BSH ]
*Speaking of g...
The 2025-26 season was sure to be a major one for goaltender Sam Ersson. Coming off of as close to disastrous of a season as possible in 2024-25, in which he got away from his game so severely that he landed down in the basement of the league rankings in goaltenders as a result, and heading into a contract year, Ersson needed to find a way to get his game back on track and fast if he wanted to hold on to his place in this organization.
And while the year was still an up and down one, the ...
It feels like it’s goalie week here at Broad Street Hockey.
We’ve taken a look at the possibility of a Dan Vladar extension , why the Flyers should move on from Sam Ersson , and a few options in free agency that Danny Briere should target to pair with his starting netminder.
But the trade market is always interesting as well, and it’s somewhere that Briere has found hidden gems throughout his tenure as Flyers general manager. Could he do the same this offseason by trading for a goali...
Tyson Foerster came into this season as one of the Flyers’ best kept secrets, and was seemingly primed for a breakout campaign where he would push for his first 30 goal season. As the year began, Foerster seemed well on his way, he put up 10 goals in his first 21 games, and was on a 40 goal pace heading into early December. He looked like someone who was going to be instrumental on both ends for a team desperate for goal scoring, and elite defensive forwards.
Then, the injuries started.&n...
It’s no secret that the Philadelphia Flyers want to build off of their success this past season. And it could mean one of the defenseman that they developed from being a second-round draft pick to playing a solid role on this team, could be heading out the door.
As we comb through the Flyers roster, doing a little bit of a post-postseason audit of just where there could be room for improvements and what the front office could address this summer, a lot of people are landing on the blue li...
The 2025-26 Philadelphia Flyers made an important step in the development of their young core, making the playoffs for the first time since 2020. The team was swept by the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Semifinals and looked overmatched for much of the series.
Carolina has been very successful in the Rod Brind’Amour era, having last missed the playoffs in 2018. They were the best team in the Eastern Conference and the second-best team in the NHL this past season. ...
On Tuesday the National Hockey League revealed what the cost would be regarding offer sheets and the compensation needed to land the player in question. Teams could begin discussing deals with restricted free agents on the night of June 30, but the deal could not be inked until free agency begins on July 1. The tiers were divided into the following, with obviously the bigger offer sheet Average Annual Value (AAV) resulting in a team coughing up more draft picks.
Offer Sheet AAV Compensati...
*Last night we got the first game out west, and tonight we get the first game of this Montreal Canadiens – Carolina Hurricanes series. Then we can really think about what the Flyers can learn from these four remaining teams. [ BSH ]
*While we’re all learning lessons, here’s one thing learned from each of the teams eliminated in the second round, including your Philadelphia Flyers. [ The Athletic ]
*Have we mentioned that Danny Briere is going to have a lot of decisions to make this s...
The Philadelphia Flyers don’t have many holes to fill on their roster this offseason. Well, at least ones that can be easily found through free agency.
This offseason’s free-agency class is particularly lackluster, although John Carlson could be the perfect fit. Outside of him, Darren Raddysh, and a few other veterans who will be overpaid, most teams will try to use free agency to fill in smaller gaps.
One position where the Flyers have a few questions this offseason is between the p...
The Philadelphia Flyers are among the teams looking to upgrade their goaltending situation this summer. While career backup Dan Vladar provided more than they could have hoped for in a starting role this season, Samuel Ersson left plenty to be desired as his understudy. Philly is looking for a new tandem partner for Vladar. While the Flyers are open to locking up Vladar if the price is right (he has one year remaining on his deal and is eligible for an extension July 1), they are fully a...
All throughout this summer we will be conjuring up some hypotheses of how exactly the Philadelphia Flyers might look on the ice next season. Will they be going super young and trading away some veterans? Will they add a more experienced presence down the middle or on the blue line to try and feel more secure about making the playoffs again? What about the backup goaltender?
To ask all of these questions and try to come up with answers, sometimes we have to know the rules. Those pesky litt...
Nic Deslauriers is just an insanely easy guy to root for and while his time with the Philadelphia Flyers is almost certainly over (and has been since he was traded at the deadline), it is nice to remember what he represented while he was here. Maybe not the most skilled guy on the ice, or the fastest, or the best forechecker, or the most defensively solid, but he sure could fight.
So, do you really want to read a big blog about what Deslauriers did on the ice during actual play? You click...