The top-ranked Michigan State Spartans got their first taste of Big Ten play this season, hosting the No. 3 ranked Penn State Nittany Lions over the weekend. The main storyline in this matchup was Porter Martone facing off against Gavin McKenna, and the Flyers’ 2025 sixth overall pick came out on top over the course of the series.
Series recap
In their first home in about a month, the Spartans delivered a thrilling overtime victory to open up the series. What began as a defensive bat...
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The Philadelphia Flyers have an uncanny ability to make every single game a roller coaster ride. That remained true Saturday afternoon in their matinee tilt against the Ottawa Senators at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
After a rough start, the Flyers battled back to force overtime, but ultimately fell to the Senators by a score of 3-2 in OT.
The Basics
First period: 5:14 — Tim Stützle (David Perron, Ridly Greig), 6:19 — Michael Amadio (Claude Giroux, Shane Pinto) Second period: 11:23 —...
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After a quick two-game road trip during the week, the Flyers are back on home ice for a matinee matchup against the Senators. It’s a good chance for them to keep the momentum rolling after pulling off a sweep of the road trip, but sustaining momentum has been a bit of a trouble spot for this team so far this season, so we’ll see how this one goes.
Puck drop: 1:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
The Flyers pulled off a big win t...
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The Philadelphia Flyers announced they’ve recalled forward Carl Grundstrom from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
Transaction: We have recalled forward Carl Grundstrom from the @LVPhantoms (AHL). pic.twitter.com/STpv07GmVL — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) November 7, 2025
Grundstrom, 27, was acquired by the Flyers in the deal that sent Ryan Ellis and his contract off to San Jose. Grundstrom has yet to see any action with Philadelphia, but he’ll at least be an option to get into the...
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As the calendar’s turned to November, Flyers prospects near and far have their seasons well and truly rolling. Roles are beginning to emerge, and momentum is beginning to get going, and we’re back to recap all of the week’s biggest happenings. Let’s get into it.
The News of the Week
Things were beginning to feel a little bit to quiet around here, but the Flyers gave us a little bit of movement to keep our need for news sated — yesterday, Sam Ersson was activated from IR, and Jacob Ga...
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The Philadelphia Flyers were able to overcome a fairly bad game by their standards and still sneak out with the full two points against the Nashville Predators in Thursday night’s 3-1 win on the road. It was sunshine and rainbows for the visitors — Matvei Michkov scored his first goal in 10 games, Travis Konecny got on the stat sheet, Cam York and Noah Cates continued their excellent seasons — but over on the other side of the ice it was pure misery and distain.
It was a loss that was so ...
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As the Phantoms are working themselves through this long season, each week seems to bring them a new hurdle to face, and this past week has been no different. Coming off of a reasonably sound performance in their home-and-home series with the Bears in the weekend before, the Phantoms set off on their longest road trip of the season to date, heading up to Laval for a one-off game on Wednesday, before traveling back down for a pair of games in Hartford on Friday and Saturday, and closing things ...
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*The Philadelphia Flyers won the hockey game. Matvei Michkov finally scored a second goal. And Travis Konecny scored a goal too. Sometimes, things are good. RECAP !
*Obviously heading into this season there was a ton of focus on the Flyers’ urgent need to improve their power play. So far, they’ve done it! But they’ve also REALLY improved the penalty kill. A lot. [ BSH ]
*Speaking of improvement, turns out all of those folks yelling about putting Cam York on the power play over the la...
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Coming off of a gutsy shootout win on Tuesday in Montreal, the Flyers wrapped up their quick little road trip in Nashville tonight, and it was another strange game, but one which amounted to another big win for them. Bookended by pretty meaningful goals for Matvei Michkov and Travis Konecny, the Flyers delivered another bend-but-don’t-break type of game, coming away with a 3-1 win and a sweep of the road trip. Let’s get into it.
The Basics
First period: 1:44-Ryan O’Reilly (Forsberg, ...
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It’s been a relatively quiet week for the Flyers up to this point, but just as it was beginning to feel a little bit too quiet around here, the Flyers dropped a little bit of news on us, down to the wire before they rolling for tonight’s game in Nashville. Ahead of tonight’s game against the Predators, the Flyers announced that they’ve activated goaltender Samuel Ersson from IR, and loaned forward Jacob Gaucher back to Lehigh Valley to make room for that.
Transaction: We've activated goal...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are coming off one of the most exciting games of their young season after winning and losing and then winning again against the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre. And because of that powerful performance, head coach Rick Tocchet is going with the same lineup — an untouched roster to hopefully get another two points over the Nashville Predators.
The last time these two teams met in this season was just a week ago and the Flyers earned a 4-1 win thanks to two goa...
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The Flyers have one of the NHL's best penalty kills this season and it is a massive improvement from last year. Why is that?
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There is no other prospect in the Philadelphia Flyers system that needed to show that they belonged than Denver Barkey. The winger with all the motor in the world was able to play a prominent role on a dominant London Knights team in the OHL, but that was junior hockey. Barkey needed to make himself known within the first few weeks of turning pro and lacing up for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
There were questions coming into this year. We have seen it so often that a player with Barkey’s 5...
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*The boys will be in Nashville tonight to try and keep the momentum from Tuesday’s win over the Habs going. The team clearly heard what Rick Tocchet was saying and played accordingly (well, for the most part). [ Inquirer ]
*It was mostly The Trevor Zegras Show up in Montreal but the whole offense seemed to be waking up. Would be cool to see some other guys get going (looking at you, Small Travis). [ The Athletic ]
*Speaking of Zegras, you can tell he’s really feeling himself right no...
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Trevor Zegras once again played a big part in a Philadelphia Flyers victory on Tuesday night. He had two power-play assists in the first period to put the team up 3-0, and came through in the shootout to help secure the victory.
Zegras is now up to 15 points (4 goals, 11 assists) in his first 13 games with the Flyers, proving to be a great offseason addition for Danny Briere & Co.
The 24-year-old forward needed a change of scenery, and he’s making the most of it in Philadelphia.
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In the Flyers’ first 13 games, the goaltending generally hasn’t been the crux of the team’s woes. The tandem of Dan Vladar and Sam Ersson (and now Aleksei Kolosov) have been holding Philadelphia in games for the most part. There have been a few clunkers but, generally, they have held up their end of the bargain.
Prior to Wednesday’s slate of games, Vladar finds himself sixth in the league in goals against average (2.33) but has fallen to 15th now in terms of save percentage (.912), since ...
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*Hockey is a ridiculous game. Last night’s was a perfect example. You gotta love it. RECAP !
*You may have noticed that without Tyson Foerster available, Rick Tocchet got a little wacky with the lines last night. [ BSH ]
*It was a bit of a homecoming for Christian Dvorak last night, as he is apparently remembered fondly by his former teammates. That’s nice. [ Inquirer ]
*Back to Dvo’s current team, though… if Tyson Foerster is going to miss some real time these are three players...
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It was a great first period and a terrible second, but the Flyers rallied showed some character and defeated the host Montreal Canadiens 5-4 in a shootout Tuesday night.
The basics
First period: 1:56- Bobby Brink (Travis Sanheim, Cam York), 7:07- Cam York (Trevor Zegras, Travis Konecny) (PPG), 7:50- Bobby Brink (Noah Cates, Trevor Zegras) (PPG) Second period: 3:11- Kirby Dach (Noah Dobson, Brendan Gallagher), 4:15- Nick Suzuki (Ivan Demidov, Cole Caulfield) (PPG), 13:28- Kirby Dach (...
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The Flyers didn’t fare so well over their weekend back-to-back against the Leafs and the Flames, picking up a pair of pretty uninspiring losses (and looking, truly, perhaps the worst they have all season on Sunday). They’re in a bit of a spiral here, looking for answers as their process has broken down a bit, and they’re looking to stop the bleeding and get things back on track in short order, taking advantage of the opportunity for a reset that a trip up to Montreal can offer them.
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It is the most obvious hole on the Philadelphia Flyers lineup and it’s something that general manager Danny Briere clearly wants to address, and now might be the perfect time to do so.
Scrolling down the lineup for the Flyers, their third defensive pairing on the blue line sticks out like the sorest of sore thumbs. Glowing red with the word “Yee-ouch!” animated over it, a rotating cast of characters like Noah Juulsen, Adam Ginning, Egor Zamula, and not until recently Emil Andrae, gives li...
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The Philadelphia Flyers open up a quick two-game road trip up in Montreal on Tuesday night, and they’re doing so without Tyson Foerster. The Flyers placed the winger on injured reserve prior to Sunday night’s loss to the Calgary Flames.
Without Foerster, Rick Tocchet tried to keep the magic of the Noah Cates line together with Owen Tippett joining Bobby Brink on the wing, but that was short-lived as the lines were thrown into the blender for the third period.
Flyers lineup vs. Canadi...
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The Philadelphia Flyers were riding high and off to a better-than-expected start to their 2025-26 season. They were winning hockey games, some key players were scoring timely goals, and everything seemed fine. Then a double dose of misfortunes hit Philadelphia: A weekend with two big losses that sunk them down to the bottom of the Eastern Conference, and winger Tyson Foerster going down with a fluke lower-body injury thanks to him blocking a shot.
Foerster was placed on injured reserve ba...
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Dating back to February of last season, Konecny's level has significantly dropped off from where it was at the time of his extension.
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The Philadelphia Flyers’ power play were comically inept in the previous three seasons before 2025-26. John Tortorella stood by Rocky Thompson, and Thompson stood by what was nothing short of a gong show with the man advantage. It was surprising officials didn’t call gross misconducts on Philadelphia as the power play was that ugly to watch. But with a new coach in Rick Tocchet, and a new acquisition in Trevor Zegras, the Flyers power play has been decent 12 games into the season. It still nee...
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*The Flyers wrapped up at home this weekend and kick off a little two-game road trip tonight up in Montreal. They will not have Tyson Foerster. But they WILL have Emil Andrae. [ BSH ]
*After that stinker against the Flames, Rick Tocchet (and I, and also probably you, dear reader) wants to see his team shooting the puck more. A lot more, preferably. [ Inquirer ]
*Ricky Taco had quite a lot to say about his team’s lackluster performance on Sunday night, actually. [ BSH ]
*You get ...
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