Philadelphia Flyers News

A wave of injuries has ripped through the NHL, hitting some of the league's biggest stars and seriously messing with the pecking order.

Fox Sports Midwest, KMOX Blues PREVIEW - As bad as the Blues have played this season at Scottrade Center, where they are 1-5-1, the team has been impressive on the road.

The Flyers were second in the NHL with an average of 3.57 goals per game entering yesterday's play, which overshadowed the main reason for their early-season success: a vastly improved defense.

A few hours before last night's game against Buffalo, Matt Carle's voice was hoarse, he sounded ultra-congested and looked pale - the effects of the flu.

Mark Recchi and Zdeno Chara scored first-period power-play goals as the goal-starved Boston Bruins halted a rough stretch with a 4-2 win over Buffalo on Saturday night, sending the Sabres to their first consecutive losses of the season.

For the Flyers, yesterday afternoon's short-hop charter flight to Buffalo after practice had to be a little uncomfortable.

Mika Pyorala scored in the shootout to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 2-1 victory over the St.

Chris Pronger has not been around the Flyers long enough to accurately predict his team's chances in the Eastern Conference this season, let alone its prospects for a Stanley Cup.

The Philadlephia Flyers came into Buffalo Thursday night with a severely injury depleted line up, and many players suffering the effects of the flu.

Mike Richards #18 of the Philadelphia Flyers skates against the Pittsburgh Penguins during Game Six of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Round of the 2009 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Wachovia Center on April 25, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

For most players, the East Coast Hockey League is hockey's equivalent of purgatory.

The Flyers have been hit by the flu. Hard. Yesterday's practice was shortened because the Flyers are shorthanded.

Comcast-Spectacor announced Thursday that it will sell seats from the storied arena beginning on Monday, November 9th.

Both Forsberg and the Gosselins need to go away for a long, long time. Forsberg's name now has run through the Hockey-rumor washing machine so many times that people are numb to it.

Flyers Chris Pronger, Braydon Coburn, and James van Riemsdyk celebrate one of Coburn's goals against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Already dealing with the uncertain status of left winger Simon Gagne, the Philadelphia Flyers watched center Danny Briere leave practice Friday with a slightly strained groin that kept him out of Saturday's game against Carolina and raised concerns about the groin and abdominal injuries that kept Briere out most of last season.

The Washington Capitals say Alex Ovechkin is "week-to-week" with an upper-body injury.

Where National Hockey League general managers gather, trade talk follows. Their meetings in Toronto next week right after the Hall of Fame fluff ends is in range of U.S. Thanksgiving -- the quarter mark of the schedule, when many teams have seen enough to make a change.

He came disguised as Danny Briere . Playing in his first NHL game, Laliberte scored on his second shift, lifting a rebound into the net to help the Flyers defeat the Carolina Hurricanes , 6-1, in front of an announced crowd of 19,076. Laliberte, 23, promoted from the AHL's Adirondack Phantoms to replace the injured Briere, added a second-period ...

Simon Gagne will meet with a doctor Monday in the next step toward deciding whether the Philadelphia Flyers forward will need hernia surgery.