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Flyers vs. Avalanche: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Flyers hit the ice tonight at 7:00 p.m. against the Colorado Avalanche on NBC Sports Philadelphia (radio 97.5 The Fanatic). Injuries loom: Owen Tippett is out, while Tyson Foerster and Sean Couturier are questionable, prompting recalls of Hunter McDonald, Alex Bump, Cole Knuble and Jacob Gaucher. Projected lineups feature Porter Martone, Matvei Michkov and Noah Cates up front for Philadelphia, and Nathan MacKinnon, Artturi Lehkonen and Cale Makar anchoring Colorado. Key storylines include the Flyers’ reliance on young scorers Michkov and Martone after their recent goal‑scoring burst, and whether the depleted roster can sustain momentum from their first win of the season.
Matvei Michkov’s first 10 games tell a different story than previous seasons
The Philadelphia Flyers are 10 games into the season, and one of the few bright spots has been Matvei Michkov. The Russian forward is starting to look like his old self, and that's a very good omen after the club's terrible start.
Where Alex Bump and Cole Knuble fit in the Flyers’ lineup
After a 2-1 win over Ottawa, the Philadelphia Flyers shuffle their roster for Monday’s clash with Colorado. Injuries to Travis Konecny and Owen Tippett, plus game‑time decisions for Tyson Foerster and Sean Couturier, prompt the call‑up of AHL forwards Alex Bump (seven goals in five games) and Cole Knuble (one goal, four points in six games). Coach Jim Tocchet may also recall defenseman Hunter McDonald as the team seeks fresh scoring options. The article speculates on line combinations, suggesting Bump could join the Denver Barkey/Couturier unit and Knuble might slot in on the fourth line alongside Noel Acciari, while keeping the productive Martone‑Michkov duo intact.
Flyers recall prospects Alex Bump and Cole Knuble
The Flyers recall forwards Alex Bump and Cole Knuble from the AHL Phantoms as injuries thin their roster ahead of Monday night’s game against the Colorado Avalanche. With veteran forwards Kyle Connor and Matt Foerster listed as game‑time decisions and Tyler Tippett, Nicolas Konecny, Cam York and Jared Ristolainen out on IR, Philadelphia has just 11 healthy forwards. Bump, who leads the AHL with seven goals and eight points in five games, brings scoring punch, while Knuble offers energy and a hard‑checking style. Both are expected to suit up, giving the Flyers a chance to field a full 12‑man forward line.
Monday Morning Fly By: A win, but at what cost
The Flyers edged the Ottawa Senators this weekend, finally simplifying their offense and earning a win behind strong performances from youngsters Matvei Michkov and Porter Martone. Despite the victory, the team remains hampered by injuries, prompting a recall of defenseman Hunter McDonald and a likely call‑up of Phantoms forward Alex Bump. Management still faces pressure to add high‑end talent—trading Travis Konecny looms, but roster depth and future trade targets dominate the conversation.
Flyers recall prospect Hunter McDonald to bolster blue line
The Philadelphia Flyers recall 6‑foot‑4 defenseman Hunter McDonald from the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms after injuries sideline forwards Owen Tippett, Tyson Foerster and Sean Couturier ahead of Monday’s showdown with the Colorado Avalanche. McDonald, who logged an assist and a plus‑3 in his NHL debut and has a goal and two assists in six pro games this season, replaces Cam York on injured reserve and joins a blueline that might shift to 11 forwards and seven defensemen. The move adds a steady, penalty‑kill‑ready presence as the Flyers brace for a tough Avalanche test.
Flyers’ Foerster, Couturier, Tippett to be game-time decisions vs. Avalanche
The Flyers cling to their first win of the season but face a roster crunch ahead of Monday's clash with the Colorado Avalanche. Forwards Tyson Foerster and Sean Couturier are listed as game‑time decisions after injuries (Foerster with a hand shot, Couturier with undisclosed damage), while Owen Tippett remains a questionable carry‑over from Saturday. Travis Konecny sits out his fourth straight game, and defenseman Cam York is on IR, forcing Philadelphia to consider a recall from the AHL Phantoms. Potential call‑ups include Carl Grundstrom (availability uncertain), veteran free‑agent Zach Aston‑Reese, and AHL standout Jacob Gaucher. The team must decide quickly to fill key forward spots before the Avs arrive.
Martone, Michkov lead charge to break Flyers out of slump
Desperation time had well and truly arrived for the Flyers by Saturday, as they entered their matchup against the visiting Senators staring down the possibility of their season-opening winless streak stretching to the dreaded 10 game mark. Their progress up to this point had been marred by several backslides, but with a renewed commitment to bearing down and turning the tides for themselves, the Flyers were able to finally better take care of some business in this one. The Flyers weren’t ...
Takeaways: Matvei Michkov and Porter Martone step up and the Flyers win
With Owen Tippett an unexpected scratch, the Flyers’ already-struggling forwards were that much more short-handed against the Ottawa Senators. Facing a possible 10-game franchise-record-setting losing streak to open a season, the young cornerstones of the franchise stepped up. Two goals, each assisted by the other, a Trevor Zegras empty net goal, and the team can finally exhale: they’ve won. The Basics First period: No scoring Second period: 5:55 – Drake Batherson (Claude Giroux...
Flyers vs. Senators: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Philadelphia Flyers have an opportunity on Saturday night. They have an opportunity to win their first game of the season. They also have an opportunity to lose their 10th consecutive game to start the season and officially be on watch to have the record for the largest winless streak to start a season in NHL history. Which one will they take? Well that’s the thing, isn’t it? Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic Pregame reading ...
Alex Bump is off to a scorching start with Phantoms
Before the biggest challenges even began to snowball on the Flyers in this stretch to start the season, a logjam of forwards forced them to make some difficult decisions in terms of how they wanted to fill out their lineup up front. Facing his own struggles through those early goings, Alex Bump was left as something of the odd man out, and loaned back to the Phantoms to continue to work on his game and clear up some space on the NHL roster. Though a demotion, no matter the reason, can ope...
The Flyers are full of complementary players without a player to complement
As the Flyers continue to scuffle along throughout an early season stretch that has snowballed into their worst in over a decade, the struggles they’ve had on offense have started to take center stage. Philadelphia’s expected goals percentage at 5-on-5 sits at just 34.54% through nine games, a number that plunged once again after their nondescript 2-1 defeat to the struggling Red Wings, and is last in the NHL by a wide margin. They have failed to score more than two goals in a game ...
Travis Konecny is far from the Flyers’ biggest problem — and trading him won’t help
There are a lot of problems with the Philadelphia Flyers right now. From top to bottom, you can point to nearly every member of the organization and assign blame. Travis Konecny is not one of those problems. And if you think he is, he’s toward the bottom of the list. The team’s leading scorer for the last five seasons is tied for the team lead with three points through the Flyers’ nine games so far this season. Konecny has only played in five of them before hitting the shelf with a l...
The Flyers are failing Matvei Michkov and Porter Martone
Back in 2010, Flyers youngster Claude Giroux was playing his 126th National Hockey League game. And none were more important than this one. He was called upon in a shootout against the New York Rangers, with the season essentially hanging in the balance. Score against the imposing and dominating Henrik Lundqvist, and it would be up to Brian Boucher to stop Olle Jokinen to ensure the Flyers got the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Choke, and it might be a missed chance he may never ...
Does Danny Briere regret the trades the Flyers didn’t make?
This summer was all about taking the next step forward for the Philadelphia Flyers. What they actually did was a lean forward instead of the leap that they wanted. Does the team, and more specifically general manager Danny Briere, have any major regrets for not being able to pull it off? Years ago, the summer of 2026 was seen as the specific moment that the Flyers could feasibly go out and get a star so that they can have a leader up top with a whole lot of young talent and very good play...
Friday Morning Fly By: Something’s gotta give
*Folks. What else is there to say. The Flyers lost to the Red Wings last night. It’s now nine losses for the Flyers to start the season. [ BSH ] *It’s been uninspiring to watch, and also kind of boring, as the scoring has continued to look pretty anemic. [ NBCSP ] *It’s the same old, same old, really. Backsliding and still looking around for answers. [ Inquirer ] *There’s a lot that we’d like to see them doing better right now, but there’s specifically more that could be done to...
Takeaways: Flyers’ streak stretches to 9 with 2-1 loss to Red Wings
Another Flyers gameday, another loss to dig into. Despite putting together a nice but of momentum in Tuesday’s game against the Kraken, the Flyers once again showed an inability to build and capitalize on their positives pulled together — meeting with a struggling Red Wings team, they took another step back and let this one get away with them. And the winless streak stretches to nine games. The Basics First period: 17:32 – Matvei Michkov (unassisted) Second period: 4:31 – Anton Johan...
Flyers @ Red Wings: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Flyers are heading out on the road again, and are still looking to nab their very first win of the season. They came close (so close!) on Tuesday against the Kraken, but fell short in the end. Still, their process looked much improved, and they’ll be hoping that they can build up some momentum off of that and find a little bit more success against a Red Wings team that’s only struggling a little bit less than the Flyers themselves. Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: ESPN+, ...
Porter Martone is struggling, but the Flyers aren’t helping him
Matvei Michkov just missed the Calder trophy a couple seasons ago. Martone could see the same fate.
Elliotte Friedman weighs in on Travis Konecny drama and Flyers trade rumors
Things are spiraling out of control for the Philadelphia Flyers, and when that happens, trade rumors start to spin up. The Flyers have yet to make any real impactful moves, instead opting to sign veteran free agent Michael Bunting and swapping depth forwards to call up Jack Studnicka for Carl Grundstrom. A trade could be in the cards, with Danny Briere reportedly receiving a lot of calls from general managers around the league, but that remains to be seen. There have also been report...
Thursday Morning Fly By: Another chance for something
*The Flyers are once again facing a hockey game. They have earned a wonderful 0-5-3 start to their season and are hoping to build off of their solid performance against the Kraken on Tuesday, as they visit the Red Wings on Thursday. But with this lengthy winless streak, can we look at the past and expect something to happen? We have taken a look at all previous significant winless streaks in Flyers history and how the general manager of that team responded. Could it tell us anything about what...
Flyers should consider claiming Aatu Raty off waivers
The Philadelphia Flyers have got to do something to turn around their 0-5-3 start. They signed veteran free agent Michael Bunting last week and called up Jack Studnicka to replace Carl Grundstrom over the weekend. Neither of those moves are really going to move the needle in the long run, but at least Danny Briere and Keith Jones are pressing what buttons they can before slamming the “break glass in case of emergency” button. We’ll see how long that takes. And yes, before we get too ...
Rick Tocchet says Flyers defensemen are ‘too horny’ on the ice
One of the biggest differences in Tuesday night’s 3-2 shootout loss to Seattle for the Flyers was seeing the defense jump up in the rush. Oliver Bonk, who played with Travis Sanheim on the first pairing, was a force to be reckoned with at some points, and managed to start the play that lead to Philadelphia cutting the lead by the Kraken in half when Christian Dvorak made it 2-1. “I don’t know if I was waiting to get stopped, but I was just doing my best to keeping my feet moving,” Bonk sa...
How past Flyers GMs responded to historic winless streaks
As the Flyers are now eight games into the 2026-27 season still looking for a win, and now winless in their last 12 regular season and playoff games combined, the rumor mill is a bit louder than it was just two weeks ago. Remember two weeks ago? Philadelphia had not won a game, but they hadn’t lost either, ready to take on the Penguins and start building brick by brick towards another playoff run, and a bit more respectability. Well, 14 days later, that is a pipe dream. Philadelphia is now one...
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...
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