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Wednesday Morning Fly By: So, so close
*Before last night’s game, we did a little check-in with the history books, as the Flyers found themselves approaching pretty notable (derogatory) territory. [ BSH ] *And, would you look at that! They did arrive there in the end, with a shootout loss to the Kraken to bring their season-opening losing streak to eight games. [ NBCSP ] *We’re feeling a little weary of talking about moral victories, so we won’t go as far as to assign that to them, but we will at least acknowledge that th...
Takeaways: Losing streak reaches 8 after Flyers’ 3-2 shootout loss to the Kraken
Tonight, the Flyers got real close to breaking the losing streak to start the season, but the comeback effort fell just short in a 3-2 shootout loss to Seattle. Despite late goals from Trevor Zegras and Christian Dvorak, the Flyers are still playing far from their best as the losing streak reaches 8. The basics First period: 7:57 – Bobby McMann (Vince Dunn, Chandler Stephenson) (PPG) Second period: 8:54 – Ville Ottavainen (Mackie Samoskevich, Josh Mahura) Third period: 6:07 –...
Danny Briere reportedly getting calls from NHL GMs amid Flyers’ struggles
The Philadelphia Flyers are down bad. They just finished a disheartening shootout loss to the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night and now have a well-earned 0-5-3 record to start their season. Every other NHL team has noticed just how poor they have been, and they’re seeing it as an opportunity. With the Flyers floundering and looking for an answer as to why this is happening and how they can fix it, general manager Danny Briere is reportedly getting a whole lot of phone calls from teams arou...
Flyers vs. Kraken: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Philadelphia Flyers are playing hockey again (derogatory). They’re facing what many would consider their easiest matchup of the season so far, but the Seattle Kraken are certainly no slouches with a 4-2-0 record. Maybe it was just the schedule we have to blame, or maybe the Flyers are just very very very bad. We’ll hopefully find out something. Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic Pregame reading The Philadelphia Flyers have a w...
Rick Tocchet shakes up Flyers lineup, puts Martone and Michkov together
The Philadelphia Flyers are playing miserable hockey. Miserable for the players as they can’t connect on any passes and have scored just eight goals in seven games. Miserable for management and the coaching staff as they continue to search for answers to solve their 0-5-2 record. Miserable for all of us watching the games as we dread another pointless season. In response to yet another disappointing performance over the weekend, as they lost to the Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes in...
Flyers are one loss away from making NHL history
On Sunday night the Philadelphia Flyers made history. For all the wrong reasons. After keeping Carolina scoreless for roughly half of regulation, the defending Stanley Cup champions broke the game open, and cruised rather easily to a 4-1 victory on the road. The loss put the Flyers in the record books, setting a franchise record with seven consecutive losses to start a season. At 0-5-2, Philadelphia has the second-worst points percentage (.143), with only Calgary (0-5-0) behind them. They...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: How about this time?
*The Philadelphia Flyers are back in action tonight but over the weekend, we got to see the season debut of top prospect Oliver Bonk. He was thrown to the wolves on the top pairing next to Travis Sanheim and torn apart by the Carolina Hurricanes, but there were some reasons for optimism from the 21-year-old. [BSH] *Could Danny Briere do something to shake things up and stop the bleeding? We came up with three ideas for moves that the Flyers general manager could pull off to get something ...
Flyers reportedly not firing Rick Tocchet anytime soon
The seat may be heating up under head coach Rick Tocchet, but the Philadelphia Flyers don’t appear ready to make a coaching change just yet. Despite a 0-5-2 start for a team that somehow looks worse than its record, the Flyers are fully behind their head coach. A disappointed Trevor Zegras is ‘fully behind’ Rick Tocchet “Fully. Fully behind (Tocchet),” Trevor Zegras said when asked about his head coach after Sunday night’s loss. “He’s an amazing person. He’s an amazing coach. He...
Flyers recall forward Jack Studnicka, loan Carl Grundstrom to Phantoms
The Philadelphia Flyers have to do something to shake things up after a horrendous start, and perhaps a few depth moves can be the start of that. The team placed Helge Grans on waivers on Monday afternoon — a good sign for, at the very least, Cam York’s availability for Tuesday’s matchup against the Kraken — then announced a pair of roster moves later that evening, sending Carl Grundstrom down to the Phantoms and calling up in his place center Jack Studnicka. Whether he gets into the line...
Flyers place Helge Grans on waivers — what it could mean for others
The Philadelphia Flyers on Monday placed defenseman Helge Grans on waivers, according to multiple reports. If Grans, who played in Philadelphia’s 5-1 loss to Boston on Saturday afternoon, isn’t claimed by another team on Tuesday, the defenseman will most likely be reassigned to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League. Helge Grans (PHI) on waivers — Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) October 12, 2026 Grans, a 24-year-old Swedish blueliner, has played just one ...
Evaluating the Flyers’ reluctance to trade Tyson Foerster
The Flyers justifiably like Tyson Foerster, but are they potentially overrating his long-term value?
3 bold moves that could stop the bleeding for the Flyers
What a difference a few months can make. In early July, Philadelphia fleshed out their backup goaltending situation with Joseph Woll, removing Sam Ersson. They supposedly upgraded their bottom defensive pairing (or seventh defenseman) by adding Simon Benoit in the trade with Woll, sending off Emil Andrae. Finally, they added Noel Acciari, a depth role player who could kill penalties, take faceoffs and be a good linemate to Sean Couturier on the fourth line. As if that wasn’t enough, and still ...
Oliver Bonk brings positive flashes in challenging Flyers season debut
The Flyers dropped their seventh game of the season on Sunday night, rounding out a challenging back-to-back with a matchup against the defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes. This is a matchup that, even in the best of times, has not been overly kind to the Flyers, and it became an even more challenging one for them to navigate in their position of outright free fall. Perhaps predictably, this game was a rough one for the Flyers, and despite some marked positive flashes delivered, they fou...
Monday Morning Fly By: History in the making
*Folks, things are not going well around here. The Flyers really needed to make some headway in this weekend’s back-to-back, but they pretty well squandered that opportunity. It was another tough loss to the Bruins to kick things off. [ BSH ] *And then in some ways an even tougher one against the Hurricanes on home ice last night. [ BSH ] *It’s a losing skid that’s concerning for a whole lot of reasons, and it’s also now historic. [ NBCSP ] *And to make matter worse, the injury ...
Takeaways: Flyers make franchise history, lose their seventh in a row to Carolina 4-1
The Philadelphia Flyers set a franchise low Sunday night, losing their seventh straight game to start the season. Carolina defeated the Flyers 4-1, extending the misery for at least another two days. The basics First period: No scoring Second period: 10:16 – Andrei Svechnikov (Sean Walker), 13:45 – Shayne Gostisbehere (Sebastian Aho, William Carrier), 15:26 – Christian Dvorak (Nick Seeler, Denver Barkey), 16:54 – Sebastian Aho (William Carrier, Andrei Svechnikov) Third period: 15:09 ...
Flyers vs. Hurricanes: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
It’s a quick turnaround here, and after quite a disappointing loss on the road in Boston yesterday afternoon (their sixth of the season, for those keeping track at home), the Flyers are right back at it again tonight, looking to get things moving in the right direction as the reigning Stanley Cup champs in the Hurricanes come to town. The task in front of them isn’t getting any easier, but they have a bit of reinforcement on the way, and what’s more, something has to break for them eventually,...
The 3 Flyers who could possibly turn this season around
For the Philadelphia Flyers, things currently look as bleak as the eight-goalie season under Dave Hakstol. Or the end of the John Tortorella era. Or Peter Laviolette’s coda. The 1-6-1 start before Ken Hitchcock was canned also wasn’t pleasant. However, with Flyers general manager Danny Briere not quite sharpening the knives in terms of the coaching staff or head coach Rick Tocchet, it’s on the group of players on the roster now (or perhaps in the pipeline) to navigate through these extremely h...
Report: Flyers recall Oliver Bonk from Phantoms amid historic losing skid
The Philadelphia Flyers may not be winning hockey games, but they’re at least giving one of their top young prospects an opportunity to get his feet wet in the NHL. The Flyers recalled defenseman Oliver Bonk from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms Sunday afternoon, according to multiple reports. Bonk, who the Flyers selected with the No. 22 overall pick of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, is expected to make his season debut against the Carolina Hurricanes Sunday evening at Xfinity Mobile Arena. Bo...
Danny Briere’s next move is going to tell us everything about the Flyers
As owners of a 0-4-2 record to start their season, the Philadelphia Flyers are feeling the pressure to do something. This has been a disaster. There is no way around it or a way to try and sugarcoat what has happened so far. It’s not even their record but it’s the fact that aside from Thursday’s 2-1 loss against the Ottawa Senators, this Flyers team has been playing hockey like all four of their limbs are numb and they just woke up from an unexpected mid-day nap, dried drool on their mouth and...
Tocchet: Flyers ‘got to stick together’ to get out of the muck
The Philadelphia Flyers played another hockey game — if you could call it that — on Saturday afternoon. After an encouraging effort on Thursday night in Ottawa, the Orange and Black reverted back to their listless efforts in a 5-1 loss to the Bruins in a Boston matinee. The Flyers got some bad news before the game with injuries keeping Travis Konecny and Cam York out of the lineup this weekend , while Rasmus Ristolainen was placed on injured reserve. But those injuries are no excuse for h...
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...
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