Philly Sports Jabronis

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com PHILADELPHIA – When Craig Berube decided to tweak his lineup six games ago as far as line combinations, there were some eyebrows raised when he decided to put Brayden Schenn, Scott Hartnell and Wayne Simmonds together. ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com COLUMBUS, Ohio – The magic wasn’t available a second game in a row. In a game of ever-shifting momentum, the Flyers once again found themselves trailing by two goals in the third period against the Columbus ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com PHILADELPHIA – Jake Voracek has played just one game against the Columbus Blue Jackets – the team that drafted him – since being traded to the Flyers. In that one game, Voracek had one goal and ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com PHILADELPHIA – Long before Tom Wilson decided to turn into the Polar Express and try to send Brayden Schenn to the North Pole with a blinding hit that sent the Flyers forward face first into the end boards, ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com WASHINGTON – Imagine a relay race of some distance (not a sprint) where the runners on the first three legs get out to a huge lead and then, when passing the baton to the anchor, instead ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com PHILADELPHIA – Michael Raffl said that prior to Thursday night’s 2-1 Flyers win over the Montreal Canadiens, his father had never been to an NHL game. That wasn’t necessarily true. “He didn’t know because I went before he ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com CHICAGO – When the Flyers lost an ugly game to Dallas last week, Kimmo Timonensaid “If you give up four goals in the second period you are going to lose.” Pretty sure he has the same sentiment ...

By Sean Farrell, Flyers.com OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators finally broke through in the shootout, and managed to pull out a win by the slimmest of margins. Jason Spezza scored Ottawa’s first shootout goal in 13 attempts this season, and ...

Report from Flyers.com Flyers GM Paul Holmgren held a conference call with reporters on Sunday evening to discuss Vinny Lecavalier’s injury. He announced that Lecavalier will be out of the line-up for 3-4 weeks with a non-displaced fracture in his ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com DETROIT – For a good 20 minutes Wednesday, the Flyers game went something like this: Penalty. Penalty. Penalty. Penalty. Penalty. Penalty. Sure there were a couple of goals mixed in there – one each way, and ...