The Philadelphia Flyers don’t have to do a ton this offseason. Their moves last summer to add Trevor Zegras, Christian Dvorak, and Dan Vladar worked out well, helping the team make the playoffs for the first time since 2020.
The roster is now more or less set, and although changes can always happen, you can look at the players the Flyers have under contract for next season and be happy enough to run it back for the most part.
Adding another top-six center would be nice, as would a de...
The Conference Finals are now set in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The Canadiens beat the Sabres in a thrilling Game 7 on Monday night in Buffalo to join the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final, meanwhile, over in the Western Conference Final, it’ll be the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche facing off against the Vegas Golden Knights.
Every team takes a different path to contention and pivots at key points to remain there. The Philadelphia Flyers arrived i...
This season was an exiting one for the Flyers. The late surge into a meaningful playoff appearance did a lot of good to rebuild the excitement around the team, and make clear that, while the approach may not have always been the most conventional, their rebuild is moving in the right direction.
It was a positive to see so many players up and down the lineup stepping up in big ways for the Flyers throughout this season, but the arrival of so many of their highly touted prospects headlined ...
Flyers goalie Dan Vladar still has another year on his current contract. But there's already speculation he could sign an extension this summer. We take a look at if it would make sense, and what a reasonable deal might look like.
*After last night’s Game 7, the Conference Finals are set and one of these matchups was a lot more predictable than the other, wouldn’t you say? Anyway Go Canes Go. [ AP ]
*Anyhoo, the Flyers! Porter Martone continues to look like an absolute freak (complimentary) at Worlds. [ BSH ]
*Hey, has anyone told you yet that this is a big summer for Danny Briere and the Flyers organization as a whole? That choices will need to be made? Feels like a good time to start speculating about who wi...
Maybe the most annoying and somewhat pointless exercise that so many fans do multiple times a season is look at who their team could’ve drafted instead of the one they did, because of how those players’ careers turned out and how different their team would look if they just made that decision on the draft floor differently.
It often gets fairly old — such as the Cam York over Cole Caufield decision that so many Philadelphia Flyers fans bring up — or just becomes yelling about something th...
The Philadelphia Flyers have had a few clear problems — and needs — in recent years.
The most important need is a top-line center, but those aren’t exactly easy to come by. A top-of-the-line defenseman would be nice as well. Travis Sanheim has proven to be a legitimate top-pair defenseman in recent years, but he’s never going to win a Norris Trophy.
Dan Vladar helped solve the Flyers’ goaltending problem, at least for now, as the veteran had a career year in his first season in Orang...
Luke Glendening was not here for a long time, but was certainly here for a good time.
When the Philadelphia Flyers claimed the veteran center off of waivers on March 6, the same day as the trade deadline as rumors were swirling and some deals were being made around the league, it was expected for him to just be the replacement for Nic Deslauriers, who was traded to the Hurricanes earlier in the day. But for some reason, things just clicked on the ice.
It was almost immediate — as soo...
The Philadelphia Flyers are entering another important offseason, but perhaps the most pressing things on Danny Briere’s to-do list are in-house.
The Flyers have a pair of key restricted free agents this summer in Jamie Drysdale and Trevor Zegras.
Drysdale has become a key cog on the Flyers’ blue line after being acquired in the Cutter Gauthier trade in 2024. He’s made massive improvements over the last few years on both ends of the ice and is only going to get better.
Zegras ha...
After earning three assists in his first two games for Team Canada at the World Hockey Championships in Switzerland, Philadelphia Flyers winger Porter Martone continued showing his flashes of brilliance Monday against Denmark in round-robin play. Martone scored the game’s opening goal early in the third period to break the scoreless tie. He then added an assist as Canada defeated Denmark 5-1 thanks to a four-assist game from Sidney Crosby.
On the opening goal, Denmark looked to clear the ...
When Philadelphia Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet was brought on board on May 14, 2025, it was totally reasonable to believe he would hire his own assistants. At the time, there was speculation the team’s interim head coach, Brad Shaw, might stick around to be one of the assistants. But just under two weeks later, Shaw joined New Jersey as an assistant coach. On June 5, 2025, the Flyers announced that both Jay Varady, and Jaroslav “Yogi” Svejkovsky would join the staff. Fifteen days later, the ...
*Well folks, with the exit interviews in the rear view we are officially into the offseason, time to do some offseason things! Like, perhaps, sign one of your RFAs to a contract extension! [ BSH ]
*We’ve been saying — and will probably continue to say — that this is a big, big offseason for Danny Briere, because what comes with a little bit of success? Expectations, that’s what. [ Inquirer ]
*One thing that might help GMDB with his efforts to improve this team is the fact that the Fl...
On May 11th in 1989, Philadelphia Flyers ferocious goalie Ron Hextall attacked Montreal Canadiens defenseman Chris Chelios after play was whistled offside trailing 4-2 with 1:37 left in Game 6 of the Wales Conference Finals.
The 1987 Vezina and Conn Smythe winner come single season goaltender penalty minute record holder (113 minutes in 1989) pounced in response to Chelios' unpenalized elbow on
It’s that time of year again, folks! The Flyers punctuated something of a wild season with an impressive playoff push, all things considered, even if it did come to a close a little sooner than they would have liked. All the same, they did a lot of good work with that appearance to boost the standing of the team in the city, and build up the optimism surrounding their trajectory again. Now, with the 2025-26 season in the rearview, we’re shifting our focus again to the future, and how they’ll c...
Keep an eye on the Philadelphia Flyers this summer, as general manager Daniel Briere will be looking to add a tandem goaltender partner for Daniel Vladar next season. The Flyers exceeded expectations this season getting to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and now it's on Briere to add around the edges of the roster and get his team in better shape for more noise next spring. Vladar proved he can handle a decent work load and be there in big games, but it's a priority for the Flyer...
One of the main sticking points for those critical of Philadelphia Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet’s use and deployment of young winger Matvei Michkov, is keeping him on the side of the ice that he has grown up playing and has the most experience with.
As a left-handed player, Michkov still played on the right side while developing his game in Russia, and barely ever touched the “strong” side of the ice that matched up with his handedness. But Tocchet decided that when Michkov was struggli...
After earning two assists on Friday during Team Canada’s 5-3 victory over Sweden at the World Hockey Championships in Switzerland, Flyers winger (and Team Canada member) Porter Martone proved that the two assists weren’t a fluke. In fact, the third assist of the tournament for the 19-year-old might have been the best we’ve seen from the youngster in a few months. And, considering just how remarkable some of the assists have been, that’s saying something.
With Canada leading 2-0 late in th...
The Ottawa Senators were swept by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round of the 2026 playoffs, and the same defensive deficiency that plagued them during the regular season showed up again in the postseason.
The blue line needs a big, physical right-shot defenseman who can play top-four minutes and survive the grind of playoff hockey.
Steve Staios tried to get one at the March trade deadline.
He targeted Rasmus Ristolainen of the Philadelphia Flyers and, per TSN insider Darren Drege...
The season may be over for the Philadelphia Flyers — and most teams across the NHL, for that matter — but the action is just getting started at the 2026 World Championships in Switzerland.
After a few pre-tournament games earlier this week, the tournament officially opened on Friday with a handful of games, including one featuring two prominent Flyers prospects.
The Flyers have three players in total playing at the World Championships. Porter Martone is once again joining Team Canada...
The Philadelphia Flyers have made their first transaction of the summer. People in the streets holding hands and joining in chorus because we have something so wonderful as a hockey transaction to talk about as we head into the offseason.
Announced by the team on Friday morning, the Flyers have signed goaltender Aleksei Kolosov to a one-year contract with an $850,000 AAV. It’s certainly a signing.
OFFICIAL: We have signed goaltender Aleksei Kolosov to a one-year contract worth an a...
The Philadelphia Flyers season has come and gone. It was a memorable one — full of hills and valleys, upsets and major wins, and just a whole lot of finding out what this team can do under pressure.
Now that we have tasted what playoff hockey tastes like in this era of Flyers Hockey, we look forward to the future. The body of this team is still warm, but let’s just kick it to the curb and dream up what we might just see on the ice in orange and black when the puck drops for the 2026-27 ca...
Tyson Foerster scored just one goal and looked fairly sluggish during the postseason. But there are reasons why he can bounce back big time next season.
*Yesterday it was Danny Briere’s turn to get in behind the microphone and face the questions posed by the intrepid professionals on the Flyers beat. Naturally, there was much to be said about Matvei Michkov. [ BSH ]
*The Edmonton Oilers got busy and fired head coach Kris Knoblauch as some sort of shield and to blame someone else for constructing that team so poorly. [ Sportsnet ]
*That wasn’t all, of course. He also talked a bit about the offseason and the Flyers’ long and short term...
Before the second round of the playoffs started, we were all on pins and needles as to when the Hurricanes would start their series against Philadelphia, all the while thinking “surely we’ll have a little bit of a heads up.” The fact that the league announced the start of a playoff series less than 48 […]
For the first time in three seasons, the Philadelphia Flyers had a goaltender other than Samuel Ersson start the bulk of the games. That honor went to Dan Vladar, who saw an opportunity with the Flyers and grabbed the bull by the horns in the 2025-26 season.
Vladar was inarguably the Flyers’ most valuable player this season. He started 51 games, going 29-14-7 with a .906 save percentage and 2.42 goals against average. The Czech goaltender was a rock between the pipes, even though he may h...