The Broad Street Blog

For the Flyers, the past two days have meant closing out the 2007-2008 season. Yesterday saw Coach John Stevens and GM Paul Holmgren meeting with the media to discuss the past season and what is to come in the next few months.
Some interesting quotes from the pair include Holmgren talking about his offseason priorities:
“Obviously, [...]

Just like playoff series between these two teams in the past, the tension and intensity are beginning to increase. Tom Kostopoulos’ sucker punch on Kimmo Timonen at the end of game 2 and Guy Carbonneau’s comments regarding it just added to it. But for the Flyers, since Bruce Boudreau of the Capitals started [...]

The season was on the line for the Washington Capitals on Saturday, and they came out like it. They played with a no-holds barred energy and knocked the Flyers back on their heals.
The Flyers got some early pressure on Washington netminder Christobal Huet, but he came up big to keep the Flyers [...]

When it rains, it pours, so the bad news is just continuing to flow in. The Flyers website has updated the status of Derian Hatcher and RJ Umberger.

The Rangers shutout the Flyers for the second time in 10 days, and with their backup goaltender. The Flyers had spurts of strong offensive pressure, but nothing consistent and nothing that resulted in a goal.