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Takeaways: Flyers losing skid extends to 6 in rout to Bruins
Albeit in a losing effort, the Philadelphia Flyers looked like a competent NHL team for the first time this season in their Thursday tilt against the Ottawa Senators. Against the Boston Bruins Saturday afternoon, though, they reverted back to looking disjointed and downright unwatchable. Without some of their key contributors, the Flyers suffered a 5-1 loss at TD Garden, extending their season-opening losing streak to six games. This marks just the second time in franchise history th...
Travis Konecny, Cam York headline brutal Flyers injury update
Things have gone from bad to worse for the Philadelphia Flyers. After a 0-3-2 start, the team announced a handful of injury updates prior to Saturday afternoon’s game against the Boston Bruins. Injury updates: • Travis Konecny (lower-body) and Cam York (upper-body) are day-to-day. • Rasmus Ristolainen has been placed on IR (upper-body) retroactive to Oct. 3. • Helge Grans has been activated from Injured, Non-Roster. • Nikita Grebenkin underwent successful back… pic.twitter.com/uSY4...
Flyers @ Bruins: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Philadelphia Flyers are going to try again. Still winless through their first five games, they’re continuing their road trip up to visit the Boston Bruins with hope that maybe the home team slips a little and allows the Flyers to play their game. The rough season-opening schedule continues. Puck drop: 1:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic Pregame reading The Flyers were so much better in Ottawa on Thursday it’s not even funny. Four games we...
Flyers prospect Jack Nesbitt scores twice in Michigan victory
Jack Nesbitt found the back of the net twice in Michigan’s 10-1 blowout victory over Alaska Anchorage on Friday night. The Flyers’ 12th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft had a relatively quiet opening weekend, so it was nice to see the 6-foot-5 center get on the scoresheet. Much has been said about the Flyers’ draft philosophy and the decision to trade up and select Nesbitt where they did, but the important thing now is that he proves them right. The Flyers have a real need down th...
Flyers Prospect Report: Gaucher delivers, Murtagh gets rolling
Another week, another round of prospect happenings to recap. The schedules are finally starting to pick up, and that leaves us with, as they say, a whole lot to unpack. Let’s get into it. The News of the Week We’ll kick this off by getting the bad news out of the way: after a decent start to his season with London, Maksim Sokolovskii is going to be sidelined for the foreseeable future. Officially, he’s week-to-week with a lower-body injury, but hopefully he’s able to get back to acti...
3 reasons Owen Tippett could finally break out for the Flyers
As they are in the early stages of a new season, there’s a bit more hope for the Philadelphia Flyers this year than at any point in the last decade. Unless you count the pandemic-era playoffs which had them win a playoff round. Other than that, the Flyers entered the season with high hopes. And while expectations for Tyson Foerster, Porter Martone, Matvei Michkov and Trevor Zegras were high less than a week ago, only Michkov and Foerster have registered a goal of the foursome five games in. As...
The Flyers finally have something to build on after their brutal start
The Philadelphia Flyers put up their best effort of the young season on Thursday night in Ottawa, but it still wasn’t enough as they fell 2-1 in the Senators’ home opener. While saying it was their best effort may not mean much given how poorly the first four games went, the Flyers were legitimately the better team at 5-on-5 for large portions of the loss. They killed off four penalties in the first period, controlled play in the second, but couldn’t get the forecheck going until late in ...
Friday Morning Fly By: Still winless
*The Flyers made some pretty major changes heading into last night’s game against the Senators, and they were… they were really something. [ BSH ] *And, if we’re being honest, we’re getting a little weary of all of this lineup juggling. [ BSH ] *Notably, too, it saw Trevor Zegras moved over to the wing, and we’d been kind of wondering how long it would be before they pulled the trigger on that move. [ BSH ] *Anyway, all of those changes did bring a bit more spark for the Flyers ...
David Jiricek showed more of what he could be for the Flyers
As we are quickly learning during the first five games of the 2026-27 Philadelphia Flyers, it was never going to be perfect. Whether we want to attribute that little notion to the team now owning a 0-3-2 record to start their season or some players not playing up to the same level we just saw them play last year, it’s all the same. But more specifically, we knew it was going to be an interesting journey with David Jiricek. The 22-year-old defender just played a game against the Senators i...
Takeaways: Flyers look better, but not good enough in tough 2-1 loss to Senators
The Flyers upped their compete level, scored a power play goal, and still ended up on the wrong side of the scoreboard Thursday night, losing a tough one 2-1 to the Ottawa Senators. Despite their improved efforts, the winless streak is now five games. The Basics First period: 10:14- Nick Cousins (Tyler Kleven, Warren Foegle) Second period: 7:46- Matvei Michkov (Trevor Zegras, Travis Konecny) (PPG) Third period: 13:01- Carter Yakemchuk (Claude Giroux, Shane Pinto) (PPG) SOG: 29 (PHI) ...
Flyers @ Senators: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Flyers are hitting the next stop on their road trip tonight, arriving in Ottawa for their first matchup of the season against some familiar faces on this Senators squad. They’ve made some more changes to their lineup ahead of this game, and they’ll be hoping that this finally, finally does the trick for them, as they still desperately push for their first win of the season. Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 93.3 WMMR Pregame reading The lineup juggling...
Michael Bunting eager to make Flyers debut against Senators
Michael Bunting wasn’t expecting it would take this long to be back with a National Hockey League club this season. But tonight he suits up for the Philadelphia Flyers after signing a one-year contract with the team earlier this week . It might not be the solution a lot of Flyer fans are looking for as Philadelphia is still seeking its first victory. “Yeah it’s been a long summer to say the least, something I don’t ever want to go through again,” Bunting said Thursday after the game day s...
Moving Trevor Zegras back to wing is an unfortunate necessity of the Flyers’ slow start
Nothing is working right now for the Philadelphia Flyers. Rick Tocchet has the line blender out in full force, for better or worse (mostly worse), and that continued with the biggest shakeup of the season at Thursday’s morning skate. We dug into the Flyers’ lineup changes a bit earlier, and one of the most notable changes is moving Trevor Zegras back to wing. Zegras was effective late last season down the middle, even showing that he has the potential to be the Flyers’ first-line cen...
Rick Tocchet hits the panic button with the latest Flyers lineup changes
Philadelphia Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet has been searching the wilderness for some consistent lines that he could put out and lead to somewhat success. But with the team now with a 0-2-2 record to start the season, it appears that he is already hitting the panic button and going for the nuclear option when it comes to the lineup the Flyers will put on the ice. Ahead of Thursday night’s matchup against the Senators in Ottawa, Tocchet unveiled a lineup that provided honest-to-God shock....
Flyers’ constant line juggling is making a bad start even worse
The Philadelphia Flyers have had countless issues at the start of the season, and some of them started in training camp. Sure, if things continue to get worse, we’ll dig deeper into the potential foundational issues with this rebuild, but let’s not completely overreact to a four-game sample size in the span of six days against some pretty good teams. But for now, I’m going to look at a few things that have been a bit bothersome since the start of training camp. We started by looking ...
Thursday Night Fly By: Maybe tonight
*The Philadelphia Flyers are still looking for their first win of the season (we’re in misery). But one player who showed up during Monday night’s loss against the Tampa Bay Lightning was Porter Martone. The young rookie showed the rest of his team how they can flip a switch. He may have earned zero points (a goal was taken away from him) but he was certainly playing with an edge that is missing throughout the lineup. [NBCSP] *One player who could be adding a bit of that, and mainly becau...
What can be gained in Alex Bump’s assignment to Phantoms
Flyers rookie Alex Bump has a chance to refine game in AHL assignment with Phantoms.
One way the Flyers can get by without having a No. 1 center
The Philadelphia Flyers are on a desperate hunt to find a bona fide first-line center. But in the meantime, what is one way they could get by?
Why Michael Bunting could be exactly what the Flyers need
The Philadelphia Flyers are in a world of hurt right now so they reached out into the shining light of peeling a player off the pile of remaining free agents, shrugged, and signed him with a hope that maybe he can do some cool stuff. Michael Bunting has joined this Flyers team after a summer of not being able to find a home as an unrestricted free agent. Now, he has an opportunity to show that teams should have been banging his door down for an opportunity to sign him, all on a team that ...
Flyers send Alex Bump down to the Phantoms after disappointing start
The Philadelphia Flyers have made the call. After an unfortunate training camp where the player never really showed what made us hopeful of his potential and a start to the season where he was already a healthy scratch, Alex Bump has been sent down to the AHL. Announced by the team on Wednesday morning, Bump is going to now be with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and it could be for a little bit. Transaction: We have loaned forward Alex Bump to the @LVPhantoms (AHL). — Philadelphi...
The Flyers’ biggest training camp mistake is already coming back to haunt them
Going into training camp, you always want there to be some healthy competition. The Philadelphia Flyers didn’t have that this year. Sure, there were battles among players to see where they’d slot into the lineup, but there weren’t really any questions heading into training camp. If you took a look at the Flyers roster on July 1 after they signed Noel Acciari, the 20-plus players on the opening night roster would’ve been the ones you predicted. Part of that was due to a league-mandate...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: Shaking things up
*Folks, the Flyers are still losing. We have a nice little bonus off day today for regroup after their last ugly loss, and boy was it ever still ugly. [ PHLY ] *And that loss has contributed to the worst start we’ve seen from the Flyers in a long time. [ NBCSP ] *There’s more than enough blame to go around for this start, but it is making us wonder specifically how much blame can be rested at the feet of head coach Rick Tocchet. [ BSH ] *It’s a good amount, but as we said, there...
How Michael Bunting’s arrival changes the Flyers’ lineup
It wasn’t an earth-shattering move. It is extremely low-risk. And it could actually help Philadelphia. Hence, when Flyers general manager (and master tinkerer) Danny Briere signed unrestricted free agent Michael Bunting to a one-year, $1.2 million contract on Tuesday, it answered a few questions fans might have had. For one, Briere isn’t about to stand pat and let the current four-game winless streak continue without trying something. As well, Bunting was one of the better unrestricted fr...
Flyers sign Michael Bunting in free agency to shake up roster
After four terrible losses to start the season that has put a damper on everything, the Philadelphia Flyers are trying something. They have signed one of the remaining unrestricted free agents who has extensive NHL experience. According to multiple reports, the Flyers have signed free agent forward Michael Bunting to a one-year, $1.2-million AAV deal. It is a lever that has been pulled as general manager Danny Briere looks to find something to turn this early-season skid around. Th...
How much runway does Rick Tocchet really have as the Flyers’ skid continues?
After Monday night’s 4-1 loss to Tampa Bay , Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet said a lot in 63 seconds, both in terms of his vocabulary and his body language. He looked royally pissed off, lost for words regarding how inept, passive and just outclassed Philadelphia was once again for the fourth time in four games this year. Tocchet alluded to the fact the team didn’t compete , and outside of a decent effort from the line of Porter Martone, Noah Cates, and Tyson Foerster, nobody really did a...
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