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Are Philadelphia Flyers Giving Brayden Schenn a Raw Deal by Sending Him Down?
Yesterday, the Philadelphia Flyers announced that they had waived three players (Blair Betts, Matt Walker and Oskars Bartulis) and had loaned three more to the Adirondack Phantoms ...
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Philadelphia Flyers: 9 Reasons They Are the Favorites in the East
Two seasons ago, the Philadelphia Flyers came within two wins of a Stanley Cup thanks to a miraculous playoff run...
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NHL Predictions: 9 Bandwagons You Can Jump off of Now
Part of being a sports fan is dealing with the highs and lows of your favorite team. A glorious playoff win is unappreciated if the fan knows nothing of a devastating defeat...
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NHL Safety: Philadelphia Flyers Should Be Ashamed
Pit a true hockey fan against a fan of any sport, and the hockey fan will always argue that the “greatest game on ice” is the toughest sport in the world...
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The 12 Days of Hockey: A Flyers Fan's Wish List for 2011-12
In 12 days, the Philadelphia Flyers will face off against the Boston Bruins to open the 2011-12 season. Each new season brings a new set of wishes for hockey fans, and Flyers fans have a new, interesting wish list for the coming year...
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Philadelphia Flyers: 6 Things We've Already Learned from Preseason
Training camp and preseason offer NHL coaches a chance to get a good look at the incoming players that want to compete for only a few roster spots, while getting the sure-thing veterans ...
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5 Reasons Chris Pronger is the NHL's Ultimate Enforcer
The uninformed hockey fan might think of an enforcer as a player who is merely a good fighter. Someone whose moment of glory occurs as he victoriously skates to the penalty box, pumping ...
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5 Flyers Starters Who Could Be Benched for Opening Night
With training camp underway, the revamped Philadelphia Flyers roster has begun to take shape, and many experts and amateurs alike have made their predictions for the team’s starting lineup when the first puck drops...
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Philadelphia Flyers: Can the Broad Street Bullies Still Intimidate Opponents?
Optimistic Flyers fans look at the 2011 offseason and see a team with a bright future, invested heavily in skilled players with big potential who will become a force...
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NHL 2011-12: Is It Sunny in Philadelphia for the Flyers?
This Thursday, the FX network will air the premiere of the seventh season of the hit show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia...
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Philadelphia Flyers: Jeff Carter and 6 Others Betrayed by the Organization
As one of the most historic franchises in the NHL , the Philadelphia Flyers have their share of stories, positive and negative...
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Philadelphia Flyers: 7 Obstacles on the Road to the NHL Playoffs
In Philadelphia, the terms “hockey” and “playoffs” seem to go hand in hand. The team’s fan base has passion that rivals the most popular Canadian teams and the franchise itself has missed the playoffs only once since 1995...
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NHL 2011-12: 6 Reasons All Eyes Will Be on Hockey This Year
Like him or not, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman's job is not an enviable one. Each season, he is expected to increase interest in a sport about which the average American is apathetic, ...
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NHL's One-Month Countdown: Last-Minute Entries on a Hockey Fan's "To-Do List"
While the Boston Bruins haven’t yet gotten the taste of champagne sipped from Lord Stanley’s Cup out of their mouths, the 29 other teams in the league are preparing to make their own run at hockey’s hardware...
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Philadelphia Flyers: Why 2011-12 Is No Rebuilding Year
Imagine what would happen if the Pittsburgh Penguins traded away Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin within a matter of hours, a day before the draft and a week before free agency...
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Philadelphia Flyers: JVR and 6 Players to Keep for the Next 6 Years
Two days ago, the Philadelphia Flyers announced that they had signed forward James van Riemsdyk to a six-year contract extension that would keep the budding superstar in the City of Brotherly Love through the 2017-18 season...
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Philadelphia Flyers: 6 Positional Battles to Watch for This Season
The 2011-12 Philadelphia Flyers roster has more new faces than the team has seen in years. With these new faces comes many question marks about the make up of Peter Laviolette’s squad in the coming year...
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Sergei Bobrovsky: How Do the Flyers Handle an Elite Backup Goalie?
Ilya Bryzgalov was the most important offseason acquisition the Philadelphia Flyers made, but his signing caused Flyers fans to begin asking questions about last season's starting ...
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Peter Laviolette: Can He Lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a Championship?
It has been less than two years since Peter Laviolette was given the Philadelphia Flyers head coaching job, yet he has already coached the team to 18 playoff wins and gotten within two games up hoisting the Stanley Cup...
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Philadelphia Flyers: The 12 Most Regrettable Mistakes in Team History
Outside of the Original Six, the Flyers are arguably the most storied franchise in NHL history. From the Broad Street Bullies, who won two Cups and defeated the Soviets in the ...
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Philadelphia Flyers: Ranking the Goalies from Hextall to Today
Since Ron Hextall joined the Philadelphia Flyers in 1986, the Orange and Black has had fifteen different players wearing the pads...
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How a Healthy Chris Pronger Makes the Philadelphia Flyers a Playoff Team
Recently, Comcast SportsNet’s Tim Panaccio reported that Flyers ' defenseman Chris Pronger fully expects to play a full 82-game season this year, even though he will almost certainly miss the preseason...
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Mr. Everything: The 5 Most Versatile Players on the Philadelphia Flyers
When GM Paul Holmgren traded away Jeff Carter and Mike Richards earlier this summer, the team didn’t simply lose two recognizable faces or its captain and an alternate. The roles played by Carter and Richards were numerous and important...
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Power Ranking Every Coach in Philadelphia Flyers History
On the verge of entering their 45th season in the NHL , the Philadelphia Flyers have hit their share of the good, the bad and the ugly as one of hockey's most historic expansion teams...
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The Vancouver Canucks and 6 Other Teams That Could Win the Presidents' Trophy
Each season, the Presidents' Trophy is awarded to the NHL that accumulates the highest number of points over the course of the 82 game season...
