There were plenty of developments Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center as the Flyers lost to the Islanders, 3-0.
A gong show, this was not. Any notions that lingering tensions over Max Tsyplakov’s hit on Ryan Poehling two weeks ago might erupt Thursday, with the Russian facing the Flyers for the first time since,
A few weeks ago, the Eastern Conference Playoff race seemed as crowded as possible. Only a handful of points separated teams in the last few spots from those at the bottom of the conference.
Rasmus Ristolainen taps in the game-winner to extend the Flyers’ point streak to a season-high six (5-0-1) games.
Konecny has been on a steady rise. He has led the Flyers in scoring each of the last three seasons and four of the past five. An All-Star last February, he finished the 2023-24 season with a career high in goals (33) and points (68), and he’s on pace to shatter his best numbers with 35 goals, 59 assists and 94 points this year.
The Flyers have won three of four and have points in four straight games following an emotional 5-3 win against the Islanders.
Morgan Frost, Jaime Drysdale, Owen Tippett, Ryan Poehling, Matvei Michkov and Garnet Hathaway scored. John Gibson made 24 saves for Anaheim. The Ducks have lost three straight. Key moment Drysdale ...
Coach John Tortorella said recently that Ivan Fedotov’s goalie style is weird. But that wasn’t the only weird occurrence inside the Wells Fargo Center on Thursday night. The Flyers’ troubles in the second game of back-to-backs — they are now 1-8-1 in those games — continued with a 3-0 loss to the New York Islanders.
The New York Islanders continue to be red hot this month, now boasting the longest active win streak in the NHL. Which is definitely where we all thought they’d be at the end of January. Goals from Simon Holmstrom (who now has 3 in 2 games),
The win allowed the Islanders to leapfrog both the Flyers and Rangers into fifth place in the Metropolitan Division.
The Flyers were shut out for the second straight night, falling to the Islanders, 3-0, on Thursday night at Wells Fargo Center.
My initial reaction after the Philadelphia Flyers trade with the Calgary Flames Thursday night is that the Flyers walk away the clear-cut winners. Left-winger Andrei Kuzmenko, left-winger Jakob Pelletier,