Friday night was Rod Brind’Amour retirement night at the RBC Center in Raleigh when the Philadelphia Flyers took on the Hurricanes. Obviously, in such a situation the Flyers faced quite a tough test in the third of the their four game road trip. They didn’t help themselves early on, and despite showing great heart, they fell short. After the pre-game ceremony for the former Hurricane captain and flyers icon, the two teams took to the ice. However, one of the Flyers’ key cogs was missing from the lineup. Captain Mike Richards was a late scratch due to flu-like symptoms. In the loud and emotionally charged RBC Center, the team would need all the help they could get. After ...

One night after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning in a match-up of the Eastern Conference’s top two teams, the Philadelphia Flyers skated into Sunrise, Florida. Some wondered if the Flyers would overlook the Florida Panthers after such a big win, but the Orange and Black was determined to prove otherwise. The team’s 5-0 defeat suffered at the hands of the Panthers in late December seemed fresh in their minds early on. Although the team had a few lapses in the third period, they tallied their 80th and 81st points in a 4-2 victory. At the outset of the game, the Flyers absolutely blitzed Florida on every last inch of the ice. The pace of play made a Philadelphia goal seem inevit...

The Philadelphia Flyers (36-14-5) will travel to Florida for their fourth and final chance to grab a win against the Tampa Bay Lightning (34-17-5) this season. With the Lightning breathing down the Flyers necks, the Flyers could pull six points a head of the Lightning giving them some breathing room. A loss tonight would put the Bolts just two points behind the conference leading Flyers, a four point swing from a possible Flyers win. The Flyers are 3-2 with book-end shutouts by the Lightning and the Kings in their last five games, netting just eight goals during that stretch. Those shutouts moved the Flyers out of the top spot for goals per game to third behind Vancouver and Detroit ...

The Philadelphia Flyers welcomed home some familiar faces in an afternoon reunion game of sorts with the Los Angeles Kings. On that plane home for the reunion was Ron Hextall, Dean Lombardi, Michal Handzus, Justin Williams, John Stevens and Terry Murray. They are a good group of guys and is no wonder the Kings are having success throughout their organization. Coach Peter Laviolette made some changes to start the game as he scratched Zherdev and had Giroux centering Carter and Richards on the first line. The real surprise move was Nodl centering Carcillo and JVR. The Flyers started Sergei Bobrovsky who has not played in ten games. Bobrovsky was 7-1 with a 2.18 GAA and .926 SV% i...