The Broad Street Blog

With the Flyers taking the series lead on Tuesday night, Thursday night’s game 4 was do or die for the Washington Capitals. A win and series would be tied 2 games a piece heading back to Washington, but a loss would put them in a hole and put Philadelphia up 3 games to 1. [...]

The Orange Crush is back! After splitting the first two games in Washington, the first round match up between the Flyers and Capitals moved to Philadelphia. After completely shutting down and shutting out Washington on Sunday, Philadelphia had the momentum.
The Flyers needed to come out strong and prevent the frustrate the Capitals early, [...]

Game 1 of the first round matchup between the Philadelphia Flyers and Washington Capitals had everything that everyone was expecting. There were lots of goals, plenty of hits, and the emotions were running high.
The Capitals jumped out to an early lead thanks to former Flyers enforcer Donald Brashear. The Flyers responded [...]

The Flyers may have punched their playoff ticket on Friday night by defeating the New Jersey Devils and getting a bit of help from the Florida Panthers, but there was still one more game to be played. Today it was the Pittsburgh Penguins coming to town a few days after beating the Flyers 4-2. [...]

This is the kind of hockey you wait all year for. The playoffs don’t start until sometime next week, but the games being played right now feel like playoff games. Players fighting for every inch. Tempers flaring amongst the players. And the fans are completely into it. I mean, I’d [...]