Blue Jackets & Flyers Start New Season With Plenty to Prove
We are almost at the end of our summer Blue Jackets series comparing them to their rivals in the Metropolitan Division. As the calendar flips to September, we turn our…
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Flyers 2025–26 Roster Projection 2.0: 2 Rookies Enter the Villa
It won’t be long before NHL hockey gets started up again. A month away from the preseason and two from the regular season, the Philadelphia Flyers are nearly back after…
Predicting NHL’s Top 50 Players in 5 Years
Projecting the future is hard, but that’s what I’m attempting to do here. Below is my stab at ranking the NHL’s top 50 players in five years (entering the 2030–31…
Flyers Finishing in the Murky Middle in 2025–26 Wouldn’t Be So Bad
While they didn’t exactly have an aggressive offseason, the Philadelphia Flyers made improvements. Adding depth and a hopeful top-line center in Trevor Zegras, the 2024–25 basement-dwellers might see a slight…
Revisiting Flyers’ Matvei Michkov’s Best Games From Rookie Season
It’s easy to forget now, but Matvei Michkov‘s rookie season was supposed to be in the future, not the past. Part of the reason Michkov fell to the Philadelphia Flyers…
3 Reasons Flyers’ Matvei Michkov Will Be NHL’s Top Breakout Star in 2025-26
Matvei Michkov had a fantastic rookie season for the Philadelphia Flyers. Registering 63 points in 80 games as a 20-year-old learning the English language, it went about as well as…
Flyers’ Sean Couturier Contract More Justified Than It Seems
Many have soured on Sean Couturier, once a fan-favorite player of the Philadelphia Flyers, for one reason in particular: his contract. On the surface, those concerns are valid. He’s a…
Flyers 2025-26 Roster Projection 1.0: Porter Martone Makes the Cut
The Philadelphia Flyers may still have some tasks to complete this offseason, but the bulk of their work is done. Following a highly acclaimed 2025 draft class and an unexpected…
Flyers’ Trevor Zegras Can Maximize Matvei Michkov’s Talents
The Philadelphia Flyers are gambling on Trevor Zegras. At 24 years old, a player who made headlines in 2021–22 and 2022–23 for his skill is theoretically just entering his prime.…
Flyers Mailbag: Options with the 6th-Overall Pick & Addressing the Goaltending
Anticipation is growing for the 2025 NHL Draft and the offseason in general. In this Philadelphia Flyers Mailbag, I tackled some of your questions about those topics. Flyers Sixth-Overall Pick…