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Flyers’ Dan Vladar ‘feels better’ after injury scare against Penguins
Fans of the Philadelphia Flyers held their collective breath when goaltender Dan Vladar appeared shaken up in Wednesday night’s Game 3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins at Xfinity Mobile Arena. Vladar did not take part in Thursday’s practice at the Flyers Training Center. However, Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet revealed after practice that while Vladar is hurting, he was simply given the day off for maintenance. Exhale. “It’s more of a maintenance day,” Tocchet told the media...
Flyers thriving against Penguins with team effort and balanced scoring
The series isn’t over, and the Flyers still have one more win to get to the second round, but thus far Philadelphia has been perfect. They are shutting down one of the better offensive teams in 2025-26 while at times putting on a defensive clinic that hasn’t been seen in some time. Heading into the series, much was made of the fact how deep the Penguins were, with a dozen players scoring 13 or more goals. So even if the Flyers somehow stopped Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, they still had the...
Flyers proving they can win any way imaginable in the playoffs
The Philadelphia Flyers have had to deal with three different kinds of games in the playoffs, and they dealt with each one.
‘Playoff Risto’ is real and it’s changing everything for the Flyers
Fresh off the 5-2 drubbing of the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 on Wednesday night, the Flyers have grabbed a commanding 3-0 series lead. On account of strong performances up and down the lineup, and all players buying into their spot in this lineup, the Flyers are on the verge of the second round. One player who is making an underrated impact in this series? Playoff Risto himself, Rasmus Ristolainen. It turns out, after years of waiting for Playoff Risto, that maybe there was truth behi...
Thursday Morning Fly By: What a welcome home
*That — last night — that was a goddang HOCKEY GAME. A classic. A throwback. A fantastic effort from your Philadelphia Flyers. They’re doing it, fam. RECAP! *This is a seriously wild fact to me: last night was the FIRST TIME in his ENTIRE CAREER that Sidney “Giant Whiny Pissbaby” Crosby was called for diving. Remarkable! [ RMNB ] *Little bit of news yesterday as the Flyers called up a few more AHL guys to hang out with the Big Club doing cool Big Club things. [ BSH ] *If Cam Yor...
Sidney Crosby fumes over controversial call after Flyers’ Game 3 win
Pittsburgh center Sidney Crosby torched the Philadelphia Flyers for the better part of the last two decades. However, he did something on Wednesday night that was a first for him: he was called for an embellishment penalty. And after the Penguins lost 5-2 in Game 3 to the Flyers, and found themselves behind 3-0 in the series, Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse took the time to address the embellishment minor. As did Crosby. Late in the first period, with the faceoff to the right of goaltender Dan ...
Takeaways: Flyers win Game 3 against Penguins in feisty 5-2 win at home
In the first Philadelphia Flyers home playoff game – with fans – since 2018, the Flyers gave the home crowd plenty to cheer about as they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in a physical 5-2 victory. The Basics First period: 4:18 – Evgeni Malkin (Bryan Rust, Sidney Crosby) (PPG) Second period: 5:18 – Trevor Zegras (Jamie Drysdale, Porter Martone) (PPG), 9:06 – Rasmus Ristolainen (Noah Juulsen, Sean Couturier), 11:18 – Nick Seeler (Noah Juulsen, Sean Couturier) Third period: 9...
Travis Konecny made the Penguins look like fools during Game 3 win
Travis Konecny has not been showing up on the score sheet in this first round against the Pittsburgh Penguins, but he is doing exactly what he needs to do. The Philadelphia Flyers still live and breathe in rhythm with Konecny on the ice and he is a major reason why they have now earned a 3-0 series lead over their archrivals. If you just looked at a bunch of numbers from Wednesday night’s 5-2 Flyers win in Game 3, and saw that Konecny finished the game with zero goals, zero assists, four ...
Flyers @ Penguins, Game 3: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Philadelphia Flyers are up 2-0 in their first-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins and we feel, oh, we feel so good. Now is the opportunity to take a dominating lead in this series. Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP/ESPN+ 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic Pregame reading The Penguins are desperate. They made sweeping changes to their lineup with a hope that it will make a difference. Let’s hope that it doesn’t. [BSH] One key thing is that the Fly...
Penguins make desperate lineup changes for Game 3 against Flyers
The Pittsburgh Penguins are desperate and it’s wonderful to see. Ahead of Game 3 against the Philadelphia Flyers, as we head into the Xfinity Mobile Arena feeling better than we ever thought we would after the first two playoff games in six years, Penguins head coach Dan Muse has shuffled his forward lines in an attempt to find an answer. The Penguins have been dead in the water for two straight games and their coaching staff can sense something needs to change. Too bad it’s not “get bett...
TV ratings prove that Flyers-Penguins still has the juice
The Philadelphia Flyers are back in the playoffs, and the NHL gave them a primetime slot for their first postseason game since 2020 on Saturday night. While some complained that there could be better matchups in that slot, the television ratings are in, and Game 1 between the Flyers and Penguins set some new records on ESPN. According to ESPN , 2.1 million viewers tuned in to watch the Flyers take down the Penguins 3-2 on Saturday night. That was a 173% increase over ESPN’s first-rou...
Flyers must stay disciplined to keep Penguins on the ropes
The Philadelphia Flyers can't let the Pittsburgh Penguins get an advantage while up 2-0 in the series.
Flyers call up 5 players from AHL to add to playoff roster
After calling up David Jiricek and Oliver Bonk two days ago, the Philadelphia Flyers called up five players from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League. With the Phantoms season over and now playoffs for the club on the horizon, the Flyers decided this quintet would get the nod to join the big club. Announced by the team on Wednesday morning, the Flyers have recalled goaltender Carson Bjarnason, forwards Oscar Eklind and Jacob Gaucher, and defensemen Hunter McDonald and ...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: Going for three
*The boys are home, friends! The first Flyers home playoff game in what feels like 84 years will happen tonight and I sincerely hope you are as hype as I am for this experience. If you’re not yet hype, please allow yourself to become hype by drinking the tears of Penguins fans. [ BSH ] *And if you’re a subscriber over at Charlie’s website, you can get hype by checking out his Thoughts on Game 2. [ PHLY ] *Or perhaps Owen Tippett turning the entire Penguins roster into a bunch of usel...
Matthew Tkachuk raves about Porter Martone, calls Flyers a ‘sneaky wagon’
The Philadelphia Flyers are defying the odds and have an emphatic 2-0 series lead over the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. And, they just so happen to be impressing a whole lot of people around the NHL, including a star player. Coming into this series, the Penguins were the major favorite. Whether you went by the sportsbooks, or virtually every hockey analytics site pumping out a projection in the Penguins’ favor, or even national media members choosing...
Owen Tippett dunked on the Penguins and stood over their lifeless body
Owen Tippett did it again. Every so often, the Philadelphia Flyers winger turns on the switch in his head, his legs, his hands, his feet, and his heart, to instantly become the best hockey player in the world. It comes every so often, in a classic rotation of performances that we have now come to know the rhythms of — going from a couple games of dominance, to scoring but not as loud, to a couple soft games, and then back to scoring, and so on — but it came at the perfect time. During Gam...
Flyers’ fourth line proving to be the difference in Penguins series
One of the guys was a waiver claim on the March 6 trade deadline. Another went from being a top-six forward with the Flyers to accepting his fourth-line role as a hard-working, physical presence who would take his share of faceoffs and kill penalties. The third guy? Well, he had one goal all season, was a healthy scratch for portions, and looked to be a player Philadelphia might try to part with this coming offseason. Meet Luke Glendening, Sean Couturier, and Garnet Hathaway, the Flyers’ ...
Flyers’ Game 2 win sent Penguins fans into a meltdown
Sports fandom is not sane or rational in any possible way. If you were, it would be extremely boring and would take a whole lot of the passion away from something that means so much to a whole lot of people. But, because of that the Philadelphia Flyers winning Game 2 and leaving Pittsburgh up 2-0 in the first-round series between archrivals, is making Penguins fans go absolutely insane. Coming into the series, a whole lot of people that watch hockey and talk about hockey for their job wer...
Dan Vladar earns first Flyers shutout in Game 2 victory
The Flyers picked up a hard-fought win last night in Pittsburgh to put themselves up 2-0 in the series and head back home with momentum to spare. And while last night still didn’t see that Penguins offense firing on all cylinders — we can again give the Flyers’ forechecking game some credit for that, for the disruptive work they put in — they were able to pick up steam pretty significantly as the game went on, and it became a real challenge for the Flyers to lock things down and maintain ...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: Don’t know what hit ’em
*Folks, the Flyers are on their way home from Pittsburgh up 2 games to none on the Pittsburgh Penguins. They shut them out last night. This is so much fun! Are you having fun?? RECAP ! *Ahead of last night’s game we learned that the Flyers elected to bring up a couple more Black Aces for this run, however long this run may be. [ BSH ] *Despite the win there was a lot to learn from Game 1, and the Flyers really didn’t seem to learn too much but they won anyway! Wild stuff! [ BSH ] ...
Breaking down the two plays that powered Flyers’ statement Game 2 win
The Philadelphia Flyers are riding high back into the superior Pennsylvania city after taking both games in Pittsburgh. They built on Saturday night’s 3-2 win with a shutout victory on Monday night to take a commanding 2-0 series lead on the road. A lot of things have been going right for the Flyers in this series, and that continued in Game 2. That’s not to say that the Flyers are getting lucky or favorable calls (perhaps the opposite) by any means, but rather that they’ve played the rig...
Takeaways: Flyers execute, survive to take commanding 2-0 series lead
With a surprise Game 1 victory, the Flyers had stolen home-ice advantage from the Penguins. Weathering the early storm behind another solid effort from Dan Vladar, Philadelphia opened up a 2-0 lead, including one of the best efforts of the season from Owen Tippett short-handed. It would end there, and Porter Martone has his second game-winning goal in his two playoff games. For just the third time in franchise history, the Flyers won the first two games on the road in a playoff series. Th...
Flyers defenseman Emil Andrae out of lineup for Game 2 versus Pittsburgh
Ahead of tonight’s Game 2 matchup in Pittsburgh, the Philadelphia Flyers are making a change on the blueline, with defenseman Emil Andrae not appearing in the pre-game warmup skate. Officially, Andrae is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. Injury update: Flyers defenseman Emil Andrae (upper-body) is day-to-day. — x – Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) April 20, 2026 Earlier today Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet wouldn’t say what the lineup would be but said there could be a fe...
Flyers @ Penguins, Game 2: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Philadelphia Flyers need to do it again. After an emphatic Game 1 win over the Penguins, they return to the ice to try and leave Pittsburgh with an improbable 2-0 series lead. Imagine going back to the good city up 2-0 in this series? It’s what dreams are made of. Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP/ESPN+ 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic Pregame reading Travis Sanheim was a workhorse in Game 1. On every side of the puck, the Flyers veteran blueliner was putting in the w...
Flyers power play remains element to watch in critical Game 2
With a huge win collected in Saturday’s Game 1 in Pittsburgh — and an even bigger first blow dealt in this already spirited series — the Flyers have a chance to put the Penguins completely on the ropes before the series shifts back home to Philadelphia, if they can keep the ball rolling and replicate some of the good work they put in throughout that first matchup. That task, though, will be easier said than done. For this experienced Penguins team, this would have been a difficult lo...
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