The NHL’s Atlantic division was expected to be the most competitive division in the shortened 2013 NHL season. However, strange things happen in longer NHL seasons, let alone in a 48-game year. That certainly feels like the case this year as the Atlantic division ended up being the first division title decided with the Pittsburgh [...]

The Philadelphia Flyers have started the season 10-11-1 and even after a convincing wins in a 7-0 victory against the New York Islanders ad 4-1 triumph against the Washington Capitals, the Flyers are behind in the playoff race early on. Peter Laviolette’s team haven’t lived up to their recent success with many wondering whether this [...]

Lindy Ruff holds the second most wins as a head coach of a single franchise with 571 victories across 15 seasons with the Buffalo Sabres. On Wednesday, he was removed from his position becoming the first head coach fired in the NHL this season after just 17 games. There will be more firings during an [...]

The Philadelphia Flyers started the shortened 2013 NHL season 2-6-0 and it looked like coach Peter Laviolette’s team were seriously missing lost veterans Jaromir Jagr and Chris Pronger. The team’s offensive stars were not firing (arguably still are not) and the reconfigured blue line simply wasn’t playing particularly well. However, the one bright spot from [...]

ESPN.com posted up an article this week suggesting that Wednesday might turn out to be the day in which the Philadelphia Flyers reflect their season fell apart. Philadelphia have lost their opening three games by a combined score of 11-3. They enter a home match-up against the New York Rangers on Thursday night knowing that [...]

The Atlantic division has been regarded as the strongest in the NHL over the past couple of seasons and for good reasons. The Rangers, Penguins and Flyers entered the playoffs last season with the three best records in the East, and the eventual Eastern conference champions were actually the fourth team from the Atlantic in [...]

The NHL’s Atlantic division is unquestionably the top division in the entire league. The New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins were all considered to be legitimate Stanley Cup contenders through most of the 2011-12 regular season, and it ended up being the New Jersey Devils who actually reached the cup final. Here’s a [...]

The Philadelphia Flyers and Nashville Predators both completed important early pieces of business on Tuesday completing the re-signings of key veteran forwards. The Flyers inked Scott Hartnell to a six-year deal, while Nashville re-signed Mike Fisher on a two-year contract.

Goaltending is well established as the most important position in hockey. Every season there are teams that enter the season with very different situations in net. Some regularly start the year feeling very safe and confident like the Rangers with Henrik Lundqvist, the Sabres with Ryan Miller, the Kings with Jonathan Quick and the Predators [...]

The Philadelphia Flyers missed out on their big summer acquisition when the Nashville Predators matched their huge offer sheet for blue-liner Shea Weber. They also lost Matt Carle to free agency, have Chris Pronger as a long-term injury and Andrej Meszaros also currently sidelined. Add veteran defenseman Andreas Lilja to that list after it was [...]