The Broad Street Blog

After a shootout loss to the New Jersey Devils on Friday night, the Philadelphia Flyers were right back at it Saturday night on Long Island. This season the Flyers have dominated the New York Islanders who at this point are out of the playoffs.

Dating back more than 10 years, the Philadelphia Flyers have had trouble when it would involve playing the New Jersey Devils. That would be no different this year. So far this year the Flyers have 1 win in 6 games. To make matters worse, Philadelphia hasn’t won in New Jersey in 11 games.

With the whole Patrick and Jonathan Roy incident last week, I thought I would do some digging around YouTube. That is were I found this, one of the best hockey brawls of all time. The date was March 5, 2004 and it was the Philadelphia Flyers playing the Ottawa Senators at the Wachovia [...]

In less than a week, the Philadelphia Flyers have played 3 games against teams from New York, one against the Islanders and two against the Rangers, and have 3 wins.

Briere recorded six points (three goals, three assists) as the Flyers (38-28-10, 86 points) posted three consecutive victories and climbed to seventh place in the Eastern Conference. Briere notched one assist in a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers Mar. 18, tallied two goals in a 4-3 shootout win over the New York Rangers Mar. 21 and notched one goal and two assists in a 4-1 victory over the New York Islanders Mar. 23. Briere ranks second on the Flyers in scoring with 68 points (29 goals, 39 assists) in 75 games.