January 21st, 2019The pro sports world is inherently exclusive and insular, but there may not be many pro sports franchises out there as insular as the Philadelphia Flyers.
The team is now in its 52nd year. The two men who currently hold the reins behind its hockey operations have been...
December 4th, 2018OTTAWA — A second group has expressed its interest in developing Ottawa's LeBreton Flats, and it says an NHL arena is part of its plan.
DevCore Group, which submitted a bid to develop the area near Parliament Hill in 2016 but lost to a group co-he...
December 3rd, 2018PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Flyers have hired Chuck Fletcher as their general manager in hopes that he can resuscitate one of the worst teams in the NHL.
The Flyers announced the move Monday. The 51-year-old Fletcher will replace the fired Ron Hext...
November 30th, 2018VORHEES, N.J. — Former Philadelphia general manager Ron Hextall said he was stunned the Flyers fired him this week, despite their losing record.
Hextall, a former Flyers goalie, was fired Monday after 4 1/2 seasons on the job.
"I didn't see this coming...
January 29th, 2018Despite a rocky start to the season which included a 10-game losing streak, the Philadelphia Flyers have set themselves up great for the second half.
Currently sitting tied for the final wild-card spot, they have a one-point lead over the New York Rangers and New York...
January 9th, 2018The Philadelphia Flyers' bye week has officially arrived and it's time to take a dive into their 2017-18 season. If there is one obvious flaw on this team, it has been the lack of consistency. The Flyers are an elite team at finding new ways to lose and blow leads on...
September 2nd, 2017For a few months at the end of 2015, two of Philadelphia’s major sports franchises had head coaches who had jumped right from the NCAA to the pros: the Eagles’ Chip Kelly and the Flyers’ Dave Hakstol.
Hakstol is about to begin his third year with the team,...
July 15th, 2017As the fourth season of Ron Hextall’s tenure as Philadelphia Flyers GM approaches, even the most patient fans have to be wondering when the team will reemerge as a perennial playoff contender. Hakstol himself called the playoffs a “clear expectation” in a recent radio...
June 27th, 2017There was a lot to dislike about the Philadelphia Flyers' 2016-17 roster. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Chris VandeVelde were overused throughout the year by coach Dave Hakstol and even-strength scoring just wasn't where it needed to be. Brayden Schenn was expected to be one...
June 21st, 2017All 30 NHL teams released their protected lists for the upcoming expansion draft Sunday morning. A lot of deals seem to be in place for some teams, offering picks and other assets in exchange for laying off certain unprotected players. The Philadelphia Flyers are not one of...
June 14th, 2017After playing more than 600 games in the NHL, Ron Hextall decided to try his luck as a scout. Several years later, he became Vice President and Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings where he won the Stanley Cup in 2012. In 2013, the Philadelphia Flyers made him...
June 9th, 2017Yesterday morning, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported that the Philadelphia Flyers were looking at OHL head coach Kris Knoblauch to come in as an assistant coach. Knoblauch coached the Erie Otters to four consecutive 50 win seasons, working with talented stars like...
May 5th, 2017As the Philadelphia Flyers head into year four of their rebuild, Ron Hextall, the team’s general manager has a lot to be happy about. With five, first-round picks coming through the pipeline and the upcoming No. 2 selection in the 2017 Draft, fans too have placed high...
April 28th, 2017This May will mark the third anniversary of Ron Hextall's promotion to general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers. In those three seasons at the helm of the organization, Hextall has led the team to just a single playoff berth.
But those three seasons were the re-tooling...
April 7th, 2017The 2016-17 season was supposed to be a growing one for the Philadelphia Flyers.
A surprising, yet short, playoff run in 2016, offseason signings like Dale Weise and the influx of rookies in Travis Konecny and Ivan Provorov increased expectations for the Flyers before...