The Phantoms, with a record of 4-2-1 and a third in the division points percentage through their first seven games of the season, are off to one of their more productive starts to a season since their relocation to the Lehigh Valley, but the road to get to this point hasn’t been an easy one.
In their busiest week in the schedule to date — that is, their first week with three games on the schedule — the Phantoms faced a wild bit of volatility in both play and results. Coming off of a huge ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers have made their decision. After a handful of games into the regular season and not a whole lot of minutes to hand out to a top prospect, the Flyers have sent Jett Luchanko back to the OHL where he will lace up for the Guelph Storm for the remainder of his season.
Daily Faceoff’s Anthony Di Marco was the first to report it, but as Flyers practice started Monday morning and Luchanko was not on the ice, it became obvious that he’s been sent back. It was then confirmed...
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Believe it or not, we are up to thirty-six Treehouse of Horror episodes from the Simpsons and have been going strong since Season Two back in 1990. If you aren’t familiar with the Treehouse of Horror series, it consists of three non-canonical shorts/segments that often spoof or parody a popular spooky story, film, or horror trope. Among the Simpsons community, it is a love it or hate it tradition that typically airs the Sunday before or after Halloween.
As children of the 90’s, the Flyper...
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The third full week of the season was another good one for the Orange and Black, as the team went 2-1-0 in three games this week. With two home wins over the Seattle Kraken and the New York Islanders, and a loss in Ottawa between them, the Flyers improved to 4-3-1 in their first eight games of the season.
In this week’s three stars, we have some familiar faces from last week’s stars, and a new entrant to the list!
3. Cam York
0 goals, 4 assists, 24:59 Average TOI, 3...
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*It’s been another busy weekend around here, and the Flyers put an exclamation point on it by picking up a huge bounce back win over the Islanders in their Saturday matinee. [ BSH ]
*Once you make it through our observations, if you’re still hungry for more, Charlie has his usual 10 over on his site. [ PHLY ]
*Saturday’s was a nice game too on a human level, as Marshall Warren made his NHL debut for his hometown team, and even picked up his first NHL point, even though it came in the...
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Trevor Zegras is finally breaking out for the Flyers. After coming over in a blockbuster trade with Anaheim over the summer, looking to build up his game after a challenging couple of seasons with a struggling organization, Zegras has been nicely able to hit the ground running right from the jump, bringing some immediate pop in the preseason and working well to build up his game from there. All the same, though, while the Flyers have gotten some good work from him in the early goings, there wa...
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On Friday Bruce Springsteen released a long-awaited, highly-anticipated box set entitled Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition , a four-disc (five if you count the Blu-ray component) collection of Springsteen’s seminal album Nebraska . The same day Springsteen’s story regarding the album and that time in his life was released on the big screen entitled Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere , based on the 2023 Warren Zanes book Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska .
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Following the Philadelphia Flyers’ 4-3 shootout win over the New York Islanders at Xfinity Mobile Arena Saturday afternoon, forward Trevor Zegras rightfully stood squarely in the spotlight after logging a pair of goals, an assist, and a shootout tally.
But goaltender Sam Ersson deserved some recognition as well, and Zegras wasted no time giving his goalie his flowers after the game.
“I mean, he made a couple crazy one-timer saves in overtime, and then obviously he finished it off in ...
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In the first game of a five game homestand, the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the New York Islanders by a score of 4-3, notching their first shootout win of the season. Here is everything you need to know.
The basics
First period: 9:51 – Simon Holmstrom (J.G. Pageau) (SHG) Second period: 6:15 – Anthony Duclair (Marshall Warren, Anders Lee), 10:29 – Christian Dvorak (Trevor Zegras, Matvei Michkov) Third period: 1:53 – Trevor Zegras (Dvorak), 4:21 – Maxim Tsyplakov (Warren, Tony DeAng...
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Looking at the data and watching some tape, to see just how Philadelphia Flyers winger Owen Tippett is excelling under head coach Rick Tocchet.
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The Philadelphia Flyers are hosting the New York Islanders…at 12:30 p.m.??? Instead of finishing up a nice weekend brunch or going for an afternoon walk, or even being able to just think about nothing at all, the Flyers are playing a game way earlier than ever expected. A professional hockey game just an hour away from being in the morning.
Puck drop: 12:30 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
Porter Martone is running college hocke...
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With injuries still causing significant absences on the Philadelphia Flyers’ blue line and the destabilization of the bottom of the depth chart, it might be up to one single defensive pairing to really carry this team to early-season success.
The Flyers have a third pairing that very few people in the National Hockey League are envious of. Whether it’s been Egor Zamula, Noah Juulsen, Adam Ginning or (for a game) Emil Andrae, the fifth and sixth defensemen have been far from great. If it w...
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Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Porter Martone is really good at this whole hockey thing. Tonight, he and the newly no. 1 ranked team Michigan State Spartans opened their weekend series with the Northern Michigan Wildcats, and Martone made his mark early and often. Coming off of a strong showing against Boston University , the Flyers’ 6th overall pick stayed hot, cashing in himself and picking up another helper.
Just about midway through the first period, Martone was able to keep the...
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The dark cloud over what has been a surprisingly decent start to the Philadelphia Flyers season has been Matvei Michkov’s performance. But after spending a night in Ottawa, there might be some signs of life.
Coming into Thursday night’s game, there were serious questions about whether or not Michkov would get his season going before people start to panic. Maybe, there are some that are already panicking, but after some reassurance that his molasses-slow start to his season is because he s...
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*Well, that sure was a hockey game last night, huh? Something like that. RECAP !
*We got a little update from the org yesterday on the progress being made by Rasmus Risotlainen, who is a real person, and also Oliver Bonk. [ BSH ]
*Owen Tippett is having himself a great start to the season, which is cool, but apparently he is also the team DJ? Which is kind of even cooler?? [ Inquirer ]
*We were all a little worried about what kind of season Cam York might have after missing the ...
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The Flyers were facing the worst goaltending in the league in terms of save percentage in Ottawa Thursday night, and yet they managed to make them look competent, resulting in Ottawa edging the visiting Flyers 2-1.
The basics
First period: 0:29- Tyson Foerster (Travis Konecny, Sean Couturier), 7:57- Michael Amadio (Claude Giroux, Artem Zub) Second period: 3:05- Olle Lycksell (Lars Eller, Nick Jensen) Third period: No scoring SOG: 22 (PHI) – 33 (OTT)
Some takeaways
Vladar’s ...
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After a run of a few games at home, the Flyers are breaking up their stretch of home games with a quick trip up north to face off with the Senators, and a few familiar faces in the process. They’ve picked up a nice bit of steam over these last couple of games, but the next challenge is ahead of them, as they look to keep that rolling on another team’s turf.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
Even with a bit of time...
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The Philadelphia Flyers blue line is still incomplete to start the season and it looks like it will remain that way for quite some time.
According to The Athletic’s Kevin Kurz, both defensemen Rasmus Ristolainen and Oliver Bonk are approximately five to six weeks away from being back in game action. Kurz also adds that that is the timeline as long as there are no setbacks to either blueliner’s recovery.
Per a team source, both Rasmus Ristolainen (triceps surgery) and Oliver Bonk (upp...
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Cam York is on his way to have a breakout season for the Philadelphia Flyers. The 24-year-old defenseman is already grading out as one of the best in the entire NHL through the first couple weeks of the 2025-26 season.
It started out as an unknown. York suffered a lower-body injury in preseason that kept him out through the first three games of the season, but since he came back and has played now three games, he appears to be dominant.
Sure, the scoring that we always dreamed of Yor...
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*The Flyers are back on the ice tonight to say “hey” to our old pal Claude up in Ottawa. At the time I am typing these words, we don’t know which goalie will be starting. But if it’s Dan Vladar… well that’s pretty interesting, isn’t it? [ BSH ]
*Travis Konecny not only got on the scoresheet last game, he also looked more like himself, and he’s happy to be able to get things going now that we’re all back in the swing. [ Inquirer ]
*Remember when Taco was like “oh we are taking Andrae ...
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It’s been another productive week up and down the Flyers’ prospect pool, stick with us as we break down some of the top performances of the week from around the globe.
The News of the Week
The dust has well and truly settled as the seasons are picking up everywhere, and as such, there’s no big news to report this time around. There might well be some on the horizon — as we monitor Jett Luchanko’s situation with the Flyers — but for the time being, we’re coasting.
Three Stars
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Emil Andrae is back with the Phantoms, he’s been given a significant role to work with, and he’s taking it all in stride. From the get-go, Andrae was given the expected high volume of minutes at even strength, as well as deployment on their top power play unit, but along with that, as something of a newer development, he’s been getting some work on the penalty kill. A lot of work on the penalty kill.
There is the plain fact of that matter that, by virtue of the Phantoms continuing to take...
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Heading into this season, it seemed clear that the Flyers were once again entering the year without an out-and-out starting goaltender to play the majority of the games. Samuel Ersson returned to take over his role as the “1B” sort of starter who would more than likely not play more than 45 games, Ivan Fedotov was traded to Columbus, and Aleksei Kolosov was rightfully sent to Lehigh Valley in order to try and rebuild his game after a turbulent 2024-25.
That all cleared the way for D...
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*Don’t want to jinx it or anything, but might the Flyers’ power play be fixed? Finally? The Flyers are seeing some things from Trevor Zegras that make them think maybe they’ve found the solution to what feels like a decade-long problem. [ NBC Sports Philly ]
*It’s not just Zegras though, that’s what’s so cool about it. Jamie Drysdale also seems to be helping right the ship. [ BSH ]
*The success of the power play was one of the main things that made Monday’s game against the Kraken so...
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Philadelphia Flyers forward Owen Tippett has had his name in headlines in the past week for a variety of reasons. He’s playing physical hockey and has five goals in six games this season, but the 26-year-old winger is still viewed as one of the more movable pieces on this roster — at least by some people.
Tippett’s name came up in rumors last week, which sparked further speculation about the forward’s future in Philadelphia.
“We’re gonna see I think some teams poking around on Philad...
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