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’ Cam York Extension Reveals Long-Term Belief
A pending restricted free agent last season, Cam York was engulfed by trade rumors. One of former Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Tortorella’s favorite whipping boys, a perceived decline in…
Flyers’ Rick Tocchet Hire: Glass-Half-Full, Half-Empty Arguments
After dumping head coach John Tortorella in late March, it didn’t take the Philadelphia Flyers too long to settle on their new bench boss: Rick Tocchet. A longtime player of…
What Went Wrong Between Miller and Tocchet in the Canucks Leadership Clash?
In the NHL, leadership isn’t always smooth sailing. Teams can have a variety of strong personalities, each with their own ideas about how tasks should be accomplished. And sometimes, those…
J.T. Miller, Rick Tocchet, and a Canucks Breakup That Was Coming
When the Vancouver Canucks decided to trade J.T. Miller early this year, it wasn’t just about hockey—it had the feel of the end of a complicated and emotionally driven chapter…
Lehigh Valley Phantoms Have Plenty of Optimism Following John Snowden Hire
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms are entering a new era, not just with their rebuild but where they stand in the American Hockey League (AHL). They are a team on the…
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…
Quiet Star, Loud Silence: Elias Pettersson and the Canucks’ Identity Crisis
NHL teams carry more than just their roster. Every season, they begin with expectations, history, hope, and sometimes, ghosts. For the 2024–25 Vancouver Canucks, those ghosts are less about past…
What One Canucks Photo Reveals About a Lost 2024-25 Season
Sometimes a single image captures what months of coverage, analysis, and speculation can only circle. For the 2024–25 Vancouver Canucks, this might be that image. At first glance, it’s just…
Flyers News & Rumors: Shabanov, Hague, Free-Agent Connections, & More
In this edition of our Philadelphia Flyers news and rumors report, we’ll take a look at a few things. First, what’s going on with 24-year-old Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) forward…