Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsWhile it may seem like a shock to some, we all saw it coming. We saw it coming from a mile away. The Flyers were for the lack of a better word unprepared for the 2012-13 season. While the personnel on defense and the turnover with some of the forwards was concern enough, there are ...
The clock is ticking. It’s ticking and it’s ticking on multiple events. The Philadelphia Flyers season? Absolutely. As of this writing it’s now 26 games into this abbreviated 48-game season and the Flyers are not in playoff position. They’ve played more games than many Eastern Conference teams and still find themselves 4 points out. One ...
Starting on Tuesday, the Flyers embarked on what many appropriately called the biggest week of the year. For being such a big week, thus far the Flyers have come up very small. After starting out playing well in both games this week against the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins, collapses in the second half ...
If this is what NBC was looking for with their Wednesday Night Rivalry Night, then the idea was a huge success. The Philadelphia Flyers effort separated the pretenders from the contenders on Wednesday night at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. This was a wild but intense game, with the Flyers taking it 6-5. If ...
There’s a long way to go in the short 48-game season, but make no mistake about it, the Flyers have sputtered out of the gate. This week produced a lot of rumors in the hockey world and many involved the Flyers. This familiar pattern of rumors seems to happen every time the Flyers lose a ...
One word that was uttered a lot during the lockout was “care.” We heard how people weren’t going to care about hockey’s labor dispute. There were theories from a lot of different people that “nobody cares.” It was put out there by many fans and media alike, but it was easy to be skeptical. Major ...
We knew it wouldn’t take much to get the juices flowing in a Flyers-Penguins season opener in Philadelphia, and that was exactly the case. The wild sold-out crowd at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia roared in approval of the return of the National Hockey League and their Flyers. It was a playoff atmosphere early ...
It’s been well documented with all of the numbers that have been thrown out there during the 2012-13 NHL lockout that just about all parties involved lost. There were no winners. There were a ton of criticisms out there especially toward the owners during much of the lockout. Many questioned if they were fighting for ...
It feels great to be writing about actual hockey rather than collective bargaining. It’s been a grueling 113 days for fans, team employees, writers and players alike. With that said, there are a lot of details in the new CBA that we don’t know yet. We do however know about the 2 compliance buyouts that ...
There comes a point when ridiculous becomes even more ridiculous. This seems to happen every week in the NHL CBA negotiations. There is no doubt plenty of blame to go around on both sides, but all signs point to the egos at the very top being the reason we’re still not playing hockey. If you ...
