Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere had his year-end interview on Thursday. He had a lot to say about a variety of topics. Here’s what he offered up on those, ranging from re-signing current restricted free agents to the goaltending situation, to how the young crop of players helped the team down the stretch.
Note: the following doesn’t cover anything with Matvei Michkov as you can find that news here .
On whether achieving a first-round playoff victory over Pittsburgh a...
There has been so much noise around Matvei Michkov after his disappointing sophomore season and the resulting scratches in the playoffs. But thankfully, Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere is here to clear the air as he took the stand for his exit interview Thursday.
It is no secret — as Briere will mention multiple times — that Michkov did not have a good second year in the NHL. After his stellar 63-point rookie campaign that had Flyers fans dreaming of what new heights he c...
The Philadelphia Flyers are finally able to participate in the time-honored tradition of a playoff team unveiling an impossibly long list of injuries that they suffered during their playoff run. Finally, they’re part of the club.
On Wednesday morning, an hour or so before general manager Danny Briere is scheduled to speak with the media and talk all about the objectively successful season that the Flyers were able to have, the Flyers were able to release the full list of injuries and it’s...
The Philadelphia Flyers had more than a few young guys take steps forward this season. One of the players who perhaps surprised the most was Denver Barkey.
Barkey was making the transition to the professional level after a few successful seasons with the London Knights in the OHL. Everyone knew that Barkey had the drive and hockey smarts to compete at the next level, but his smaller stature sparked plenty of question marks about his ability to hold his own in the AHL, let alone in the NHL...
*Yesterday it was Rick Tocchet’s turn to face the media for the exit interviews, and we definitely learned some things. Like, for example, what he plans to do to try and fix the Flyers’ offensive problems. Goals would be good! [ BSH ]
*Tocchet also said quite a lot about Matvei Michov — what he expects from him, why he scratched him, etc. [ BSH ]
*Anyway it was quite a lot of chatting and quite a lot of insight from the coach. We love to see it. Hear it, rather. [ Inquirer ]
*In...
You had to feel for Angela Martone this week. After being featured in a Mother’s Day video showing her love for her son, the proud mom was looking forward to having some quality time with Porter when the Flyers ended their playoff run. However, it was only roughly 72 hours from the time Martone left the ice at Xfinity Mobile Arena after Carolina swept Philadelphia that he started to make plans — heading off to Switzerland to play for Canada at the World Hockey Championships set to begin on Fri...
If Sergei Bobrovsky doesn't make it to July 1, Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Stuart Skinner will be one of the top netminders set to be on the free agent market this summer. But will his next job be as a starter or a backup, or something in between? He shared duties with Arturs Silovs for much of the season after getting traded to Pittsburgh, and was outplayed by him in a timeshare during the Penguins' six-game first-round playoff loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. But overall, Skinner has pl...
Dan Vladar was one of the Philadelphia Flyers’ most valuable players all season long. It’s easy to say that a goalie is an important player on any team, but Vladar really embodied that this season for the Flyers.
Vladar wanted to come to Philadelphia because he saw an opportunity to take a bigger share of the crease, and he did just that. The 28-year-old netminder started 51 games in the regular season and 10 more in the playoffs. It was by far the biggest workload that Vladar has had in ...
The Philadelphia Flyers saw their season come to a close on Saturday night with one final overtime loss, this time with the Carolina Hurricanes completing the sweep in their Eastern Conference Semifinals series. It was ultimately a disappointing end, but one that many saw coming given the situation.
Many people also saw the criticism of Matvei Michkov coming. He was a healthy scratch for the series-deciding Game 4 after being one of the worst skaters on the ice in Game 3 against the fast-...
The Philadelphia Flyers only scored five goals in round two of the 2025-26 playoffs. And after generating a batch of goals in the first three games against Pittsburgh, seemed to hit a wall of sorts in the ensuing three games. In terms of the regular season, Philadelphia posted its first positive goal differential (for a full 82-game season) since 2017-18 where they scored 249 goals and allowed 236 (+13). Granted this season’s goal differential was the slimmest of margins (+1), but it was still...
You don’t have to step very far to find a Philadelphia Flyers fan talking about the relationship between head coach Rick Tocchet and Matvei Michkov. It’s been speculated to death after the star rookie winger turned in a disappointing season and was not used a whole lot by the coach in the most important games of the season.
Despite Michkov playing very well after the Olympic break earlier this year — leading the team with 22 points in the final 26 games of the season — as soon as he hit t...
The Flyers may have fallen short of any aspirations of an even deeper run into the playoffs, with this weekend’s loss to the Hurricanes bringing their season to an end, but on the whole this was still a tremendously successful season for the team. The growth from start to finish broadly was notable, but particularly for the team’s young players, this process was an informative one.
Players like defenseman Emil Andrae, who’s played the better part of two seasons with the big club now, lear...
*It was a big day yesterday for the assembled Flyers media, as they had their chance to ask the Flyers players anything they wanted, to presumably get some insight into how these guys felt about their season, the playoffs, etc. So naturally they asked a bunch of questions about Matvei Michkov, and, also naturally, his teammates had nothing bad to say about him. [ BSH ]
*Of course they spoke to Matvei himself as well, and as usual, Michkov did nothing to shy away from his disappointment in...
The Flyers held their exit interviews on Tuesday with most of the players taking questions. What emerged was a common theme among both some unrestricted and restricted free agents was their desire to remain with Philadelphia when the season begins next October.
Although obviously a lot of the team’s core remains under contract, there were a few players on Tuesday who were on short-term contracts, waiver wire pickups, or at a possible crossroads where both team and player may part company....
It sounds like Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Pittsburgh Penguins are getting their wish. After their season ended after their first-round defeat to the Philadelphia Flyers, Crosby and the rest of the Penguins went public with their thoughts on Evgeni Malkin's future. With the Russian forward's contract expiring this season, there's been plenty of speculation about Malkin's future in Pittsburgh. However, on Tuesday, Kyle Dubas released a statement and made it clear the organization would lo...
It’s no secret that Matvei Michkov didn’t have the season he wanted to have with the Philadelphia Flyers. He saw a decrease in overall production, a decrease in minutes, and while he did have a solid post-Olympic break, all of that good play was washed away after eight forgettable games and two healthy scratches in the playoffs.
His name and what he is planning to do this summer to start next season on the right foot, was a massive topic of conversation at exit interviews on Tuesday. Mich...
Dan Vladar still sees the exact moment that ended the Philadelphia Flyers season. The starting netminder that has risen from being just some no-name backup to being one of the better goalies in the NHL, still watches that puck float past his head and across the goal line to hand the Carolina Hurricanes the series.
It was an extremely tough watch and still is to this day. Despite the Flyers beating out the preseason odds, making the playoffs, and beating the archrival Pittsburgh Penguins i...
The Philadelphia Flyers transformed their group of defensemen into being one of the strongest areas of their team. Let's take a deeper look.
Matvei Michkov sat down for his exit interviews Tuesday morning in what most fans thought was going to be the most interesting exit interview for the Philadelphia Flyers in quite some time.
With all the noise surrounding Michkov about his potentially unstable future with the Flyers and how head coach Rick Tocchet might not be his biggest fan right now, and just other annoying stuff when you just want to enjoy watching a player you like on the ice — it was going to be a hot ticket to get r...
This season was a massive step forward for the Flyers, but they were no match for the heavily favored Carolina Hurricanes.
Philadelphia Flyers winger Owen Tippett had to miss the entire second round of the playoffs due to injury and it was a complete mystery until now.
In a letter to fans from the player himself that was released by the Flyers on Tuesday morning, Tippett revealed that he was unable to play in the second round against the Carolina Hurricanes due to an internal bleeding issue that he sustained while playing in the first round against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Philadelphia Flyers have is...
The Philadelphia Flyers will do their exit interviews in the next few days, then will head off to various places most likely for a little rest and relaxation before returning to their normal offseason regimens in preparation for training camp. However, for a few others, it will most likely be their farewell from the Flyers as they start the next chapter of their National Hockey League careers elsewhere. We take a look at three Flyers who most likely won’t be with the club when the 2026-27 seas...
The Philadelphia Flyers were swept by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round, four games against the best defensive team in the playoffs, and the result exposed two things that have been true about this organization all season.
The goaltending and the wings are legitimate.
The center position needs work.
Flyers centers combined to score four goals across ten playoff games this spring. That needs to be fixed before this team becomes a true contender.
Sam Carchidi of The Hockey News...
*According the Philadelphia’s #1 Hockey Beat Writer Charlie O’Connor, the Flyers will begin their exit interviews today. Evidently they’re being split up into a few days this week. Will, as always, be interesting to see what comes out of these. Anyhoo, it what will almost certainly be the first of a million things just like this over the summer, Rick Tocchet made some comments about Matvei Michkov on a radio show. [ BSH ]
*Everyone’s favorite insider, Elliotte Friedman, also had some thin...
It was far too short, and went the wrong way. In the end, the Flyers were two bounces from playing Game 5 Monday night in Carolina tied at two games apiece. However, it wasn’t meant to be. Regardless, some players stood out a bit more than others, either for the right or wrong reasons. Here then is our grades for each Flyer player that dressed for any of the four games. And we’ll start from the net out.
Goaltender
Dan Vladar
After shutting out Pittsburgh twice in the opening rou...