The Broad Street Blog

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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.

After losing ten straight, losing several players to injuries, and flip-flopping Biron and Nittymaki as starting goaltenders, the Flyers are now riding a three game win streak after today’s win.