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The Philadelphia Flyers came off what was arguably their worst loss of the 2009-10 season Saturday night, an 8-2 loss to the Washington Capitals.

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The Flyers' tailspin continued tonight as they lost, 3-1, to the Montreal Canadiens before a roaring sellout crowd at the Bell Centre.

New coach, same result for the Philadelphia Flyers. With Peter Laviolette making his Flyers debut behind the bench, Tomas Fleischmann and Mike Green scored two goals apiece, and Nicklas Backstrom added a goal and four assists, leading the streaking Washington Capitals to a 8-2 win over Philadelphia on Saturday night.

Peter Laviolette was perturbed when one of his hockey players questioned his advice on a new technique during a drill.

Desperate to show their skeptical fans they are not as bad as their recent slide suggests, the Flyers showed some fight against the Vancouver Canucks Thursday night at the Wachovia Center.

Two goals won't get it done in most hockey games. So it's little wonder that the Flyers, losers of five of their last six games, have averaged just two goals in that recent quintet of defeats.

Maybe in another month or so, when their injured forwards could be back, the Flyers will get their act together.

Colorado was not a hospitable host, making the Flyers feel unwelcome in the Pepsi Center from the drop of the puck.

The Flyers' Ian Laperriere dukes it out with the Islanders' Brendan Witt in the first of Laperriere's two first-period fights.

Scott Hartnell scored from the high slot with 5:27 left, and Brian Boucher made 28 saves in Philadelphia Flyers' 2-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Wednesday night.

When the Philadelphia Flyers departed on their five game road trip expectations were high, and rightly so.

The Colorado Avalanche have discovered two-goal leads aren't enough to get a win, so they grabbed a three-goal edge against Philadelphia on Monday night.

Claude Giroux is known for his playmaking, not his fists. Yet, with the Flyers facing a 5-2 deficit Monday, the little forward pounded Marek Svatos during a fight late in the second period and it seemed to spark his team toward one of its best 20 minutes of the season.

For the first time in almost a year-and-a-half, both Matt Carle and his brother David have had a chance to settle down.

Right winger Andreas Nodl and diminutive center Jared Ross are hoping their second tour with the Flyers is more productive than the first.

DENVER The view from the perch on Monday night was not pretty. I can't imagine what it was like from the ice or inside the Flyers' locker room after the second period.

Dave Schultz gave a heartfelt speech when he went into the Flyers' Hall of Fame prior to Monday's game against New Jersey at the Wachovia Center.

Keith Yandle scored a power-play goal with 9:41 remaining to help the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 on Saturday night for their second victory in three games.

The Flyers had no players among the league's top 36 scorers entering last night.