The Broad Street Blog

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, [...]

Now that Flyers’ forward Patrick Thoresen is out of the hospital and no longer threatened with the possibility of losing a testicle, he can look back and laugh at the situation.
During game 1 against the Capitals, Thoresen went down to block a shot and was hit directly in the groin. He was helped [...]

During his commentary between periods of Sunday’s Flyers - Capitals game, NBC “analyst” Mike Milbury had a slip of the tongue and called the Washington Capitals, the “Washington Craps.” Or at least he says it was a slip of the tongue. To further dig himself a hole, instead of moving on, he brought [...]

After Friday’s Game 1 collapse by the Flyers, they learned a valuable lesson, that they could easily slip back into the bad habits that caused them to lose 10 straight games earlier this year. Hockey is a 60 minute game, and playing anything less will spell loss.
Coming into today’s game, everyone was [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday afternoon, the Flyers left Philadelphia for Washington for the first two games of their first round series with the Capitals. The fans came out to see their team off and to show their support. Click here to see the gallery.