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Quick Hits: September 1, 2023 1) The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) regular season gets underway today with a game pitting CSKA Moscow at home against Ak Bars Kazan. Both the KHL and CSKA Moscow have vowed not to comply with a recent IIHF ruling that said the Philadelphia Flyers have an enforcea...
Quick Hits: September 1, 2023 1) The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) regular season gets underway today with a game pitting CSKA Moscow at home against Ak Bars Kazan. Both the KHL and CSKA Moscow have vowed not to comply with a recent IIHF ruling that said the Philadelphia Flyers have an enforcea...
Quick Hits: September 3, 2023 1) The opening weekend of the KHL regular season was a tough one from the standpoint of the Philadelphia Flyers' interests in drafted/contracted players in the league. I will attempt to put things in context. From an immediate standpoint, these are just blips on a ra...
Quick Hits: September 4, 2023 1) Last night, Jason Myrtetus and I recorded the weekly Mondays with Meltzer episode of Flyers Daily. The main topic was creating an "all-underrated" Flyers starting lineup through team history. Next thing we knew, we'd been talking for an hour and five minute. So we...
Quick Hits: September 5, 2023 1) One week from tomorrow, Flyers prospects and rookie hopefuls will report officially to the Flyers Training Center in Voorhees for the start of Rookie Camp. The following week, on September 20, all players must report for the start of NHL Camp. 2) Rookie games:...
Quick Hits: September 6, 2023 1) Flyers Daily: On today's edition of the Flyers Daily podcast, Jason Myrtetus and I complete our discussion of each of our personal picks for the most underrated Flyers in franchise history. Each of us give our picks for the most underrated defensemen, goalies an...
Quick Hits: September 7, 2023 1) According to multiple reports but not yet officially announced by the Flyers, restricted free agent center Morgan Frost has agreed to a two-year contract with a $2.1 million average annual value. His qualifying offer come 2025, when he will be an arbitration-eligi...
Quick Hits: September 8, 2023 1) Flyers Daily: On Friday's edition of Flyers Daily, Jason Myrtetus discusses the importance of the continued evolution of the Flyers' roster nucleus, not only in taking the next step in 2023-24 from last season but also for the long term future. Jason identifies th...
Quick Hits: September 9, 2023 1) The majority of the Flyers' players are now in Voorhees for pre-camp workouts. Here's a reminder the upcoming schedule: * Sept 13: Rookie camp attendees report to the Flyers Training Center (FTC) in Voorhees. * Sept 14: On-ice work begins for Rookie Camp. *...
Quick Hits: September 11, 2023 1) Flyers Rookie Camp gets underway this week, with Rookie Games on Friday and Saturday against the New York Rangers' prospects at the PPL Center in Allentown. Last night, Jason Myrtetus and I recorded a pre-Camp edition of Flyers Daily. We did an "Ask Billy" segmen...
Quick Hits: September 12, 2023 1) The Flyers posted their 2023 Rookie Camp roster and schedule yesterday. The roster includes 13 forwards, 10 defensemen and two goaltenders. Later today, there will be a preview article on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com focused on players who are either first-time attende...
Quick Hits: September 13, 2023 1) On-ice work at the Flyers 2023 Rookie Camp gets underway tomorrow morning at the FTC in Voorhees. Today, attending players will undergo physical testing. Of all forwards in Rookie Camp, 2020 first-round pick Tyson Foerster arguably has the highest chance to e...
Quick Hits: September 14, 2023 1) Rookie Camp got underway at the FTC in Voorhees today. All attendees with the exception of JR Avon (who had not yet completed his physical testing) were on the ice. Beforehand, the attendees at the Flyers NHL camp held a practice session with no coaches on the ic...
The Philadelphia Flyers' Rookies will take on their New York Rangers counterparts on Friday evening at the PPL Center in Allentown (home of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms) for the first match of a two-game set. Game time is 7:05 p.m. EDT. Friday's game will be streamed online at PhiladelphiaFlyers.co...
The New York Rangers Rookies downed the Philadelphia Flyers Rookies, 4-2, on Friday night in the first match of the two-game 2023 Rookies Series at the PPL Center in Allentown. The teams will rematch on Saturday evening at 5:05 p.m. EDT. Saturday's game will be televised. NBC Sports Philadelphia...
Quick Hits: Rookie Series Wrapup 1) Last year, the Flyers swept their two-game Rookie Series against the New York Rangers' prospects. This year, the Rangers pushed back by sending the Flyers Rookies to a 4-2 defeat on Friday and a 3-1 loss in Saturday's rematch. 2) Standouts in the two-get set...
Quick Hits: September 18, 2023 1) Rookie Camp resumes this morning at the Flyers Training Center in Voorhees. The players will be on the ice at 11 a.m. EDT. Before the rookie practice stats. the veterans will practice with no coaches on the ice. Below is the schedule for the rest of the week afte...
Quick Hits: September 19, 2023 1) Flyers general manager Danny Briere will speak to the media at the FTC in Voorhees this morning at 10:30 a.m. EDT. Topics likely to be addressed include the start of NHL training camp this week, his observations on Rookie Camp and the two Rookies Series games in...
Quick Hits: September 20, 2023 1) Today is Media Day at the Flyers Training Center in Voorhees. In addition to the usual pre-camp medicals for the players, Media Day is when players have photos (head shots, publicity photos in full uniform) and video filmed for television broadcast purposes. Tom...
One of veteran head coach John Tortorella's signatures is his skating-intensive training camps, especially the mentally and physically grueling skating test for all camp participants on the first day of camp. Apart from testing their conditioning levels, the main objective is to push players to thei...
Quick Hits: September 22, 2023 1) Throughout this weekend, the Flyers will be conducting multiple daily scrimmages ahead of Monday's preseason opener in Newark against the New Jersey Devils. Each of three practice groups/teams will scrimmage twice each day. There are also respective practice sess...
Flyers head coach John Tortorella said after Friday's round of scrimmages at the FTC in Voorhees that he's made some adjustments to the early portion of training camp compared to last year. There's more emphasis on competition and game simulations with shorter conditioning-focused segments. For that...
The third straight multi-scrimmage day will take place today at the Flyers Training Center in Voorhees. Today's it's Team 3 -- the group headed by Joel Farabee, Morgan Frost, Cam Atkinson, Nic Deslauriers, Ryan Poehling, Garnet Hathaway, Tanner Laczynski, Wade Allison, Ronnie Attard, Nick Seeler, V...
The Flyers open their preseason schedule on Monday evening with a road game against the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center in Newark. Game time is 7:00 p.m. EDT. This is no televised or streaming broadcast of the game. The game will be broadcast on the radio (97.5 The Fanatic). The Flyers...
The Philadelphia Flyers opened their 2023 preseason slate with a 6-0 blowout loss to the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center in Newark. The Flyers trailed 4-0 before the game was even six minutes into the first period, and Philly never mounted any meaningful pushback throughout the night. In...
Preview: Flyers @ New York Islanders The Flyers are in Elmont, NY, on Wednesday evening to take on the New York Islanders at UBS Arena. Game time is 7:00 p.m. EDT. The game will be streamed on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com. The radio broadcast is on 97.5 The Fanatic with an online simulcast on Flyers Ra...
Quick Hits: September 28, 2023 1) The Flyers (0-2-0 in preseason play) lost a 2-1 decision to the New York Islanders (1-1-0) at UBS Arena in Elmont, NY, on Wednesday evening. Simon Holmström and Julien Gauthier (power play) scored for the Islanders. With 2:22 remaining in the third period and th...
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