Philly Sports Jabronis

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 ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com ST. PAUL, Minn. – If you like pitcher’s duels in baseball, or nil-nil soccer matches or the three-yards-and-a-cloud of dust approach to football, then Monday’s game between the Flyers and Minnesota Wild was for you. It ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com NASHVILLE – Steve Mason doesn’t seem to give up any bad goals. So, when Colin Wilson beat him under his right pad with a knuckleball, you could see the frustration on Mason’s face. Never mind that he ...

By Jay Greenberg, Flyers.com Dustin Byfuglien not only telegraphed his D-to-D pass to Tobias Enstrom but he Tweeted it and posted a picture of it on Facebook, too. Thank you very much, Sean Couturier happily confirmed that friend request and was off ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, Flyers.com TAMPA – O.K., so there are still flaws with the Flyers. One all-too-short seven-game stretch of inspired play is not going to dictate a season. Just like one horrid eight-game stretch at the start of the ...