PHLY Philadelphia Flyers Podcast

On Friday, the Philadelphia Flyers officially closed the book on the 2023-24 season with media availability for head coach John Tortorella and General Manager Danny Briere. Bill & Charlie share their reactions to the day’s news, including the fact that Rocky Thompson will be returning to coach the power play despite historically bad results in his first 2 seasons, and that Ivan Fedotov and Sam Ersson will be the goalie tandem next year, in all likelihood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a surprising 2023-24 season that saw the Philadelphia Flyers miss the postseason in Game 82, the question now is, what’s next? What’s next in the rebuilding plan for the front office, and John Tortorella. What direction should GM Danny Briere take this summer- stay the course? Make more subtractions? Or accelerate the rebuild? Charlie, Bill & Kelly discuss some potential offseason moves, as well as discuss Jeff Carter’s career and the Arizona Coyotes’ final game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Flyers season ended on Tuesday night when the Montreal Canadiens iced the puck with 7 seconds left, allowing Shayne Gostisbehere’s Detroit Red Wings to tie up their game, sending it to overtime and ending Philly’s chances of making the postseason. Losing to Washington was just adding insult to injury for a team that spent nearly 4 months in a playoff spot. Charlie, Kelly & Bill take a look back at the last few nights of the Flyers season, the 8-game losing streak, as well as some of the brighter spots (Sam Ersson’s bounce back, Tyson Foerster’s development) before turning the page on 2023-24. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So close, yet so far. The Philadelphia Flyers needed the Detroit Red Wings to lose in regulation. Yet, with 3 seconds left in regulation, old friend Shayne Gostisbehere set up David Perron to tie the game 4-4 and send it to OT, effectively ending the Flyers' chances at a playoff berth. Erik Johnson scored the Flyers’ lone goal as they fell to the Washington Capitals, 2-1. Bill, JP, and Charlie break down the action and discuss the beginning of many offseason questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Philadelphia Flyers have a must-win game against the Washington Capitals on Tuesday, and everyone seems to be eagerly anticipating both the possibility of making the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as well as Danny Briere’s second offseason as general manager. Bill & Charlie open up the mailbag to find out what Flyers fans are most concerned about ahead of Game 82 of the 2023-24 regular season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Philadelphia Flyers still need a lot of help to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but at least for tonight, their effort against the New Jersey Devils keeps the dream alive for another day. Travis Konecny scored the game's only point with a short-handed goal, and Sam Ersson posted another strong performance, continuing to bounce back from his struggles that began in mid-February. Charlie, Bill & JP break down the action, and look at the standings ahead of Tuesday’s regular season finale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Philadelphia Flyers simply make no sense. After losing eight straight, most of which to lottery teams, many fans turned their own attention to the future. But amid questions about the team’s effort in the last few weeks, Philly turned in one of its best recent performances to defeat the Presidents Trophy-leading New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. Bill, Kelly & Charlie break down the action, including bounce back performances by Travis Konecny and Sam Ersson, and take a look at the still-relevant playoff standings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here we go again. No matter the coach- Peter Laviolette, Craig Berube, Dave Hakstol, Alain Vigneault, or now John Tortorella, we’re having this conversation again. Have the Philadelphia Flyers’ players tuned out their head coach? Should Torts be behind the bench for year 3? Are veteran leaders like Sean Couturier, Travis Konecny, Scott Laughton and Travis Sanheim to blame? Charlie, Bill and Kelly open up the mailbag to try to answer questions straight from Flyers fans regarding this epic collapse and the future of the rebuild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Philadelphia Flyers losing streak has reached 8 following an ass-kicking at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens. Trailing 1-0 after the first and not looking too bad in the process, Philly surrendered 5 goals in the second period, including the final 2/3 of Juraj Slafkovsky’s first career hat trick. Sam Ersson wasn’t bad to start and then was left completely hung out to dry before being pulled in favor of Ivan Fedotov after Montreal’s 5th goal and the Habs didn’t let up, netting one on Fedotov before the end of the middle frame. What will happen in the 3rd? Does it matter? Will this once promising season end on an 11-game losing streak? Charlie, Bill & JP break down the action as the postseason slips further away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The sky is falling! The Philadelphia Flyers have now lost seven straight games, after being swept on Friday and Saturday back-to-backs by the Buffalo Sabres and Columbus Blue Jackets. Goaltending, scoring, culture and the plan itself have all come under fire during this collapse, and now Bill & Charlie are back together on this Monday live show to break it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is going on with the Philadelphia Flyers? After Sam Ersson returned to action after a few days of rest, the Philadelphia Flyers needed to head into Columbus with a must-win attitude in their last back-to-back of the season. The Blue Jackets entered the game without ten players and starting minor league goalie Jett Greaves in goal. But after falling behind 2-0 in the first period, and Damon Severson netting his second of the night in the second period, the Flyers sure looked more like a rebuilding team than a playoff team. Olle Lycksell and Adam Ginning netted their first NHL goals late in the game, but that wasn't enough as the Blue Jackets ran away with the victory, 6-2. JP, Charlie, and Kelly break down the action, including a look at who's most to blame for the collapse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This stings. The Flyers needed to win against the Buffalo Sabres to keep their season alive and John Tortorella went with Ivan Fedotov for his first NHL start to get the job done. The Flyers played hard and generated some chances early, and Noah Cates finally got them on the board to tie the game 1-1 in the second period. But rookie Jack Quinn's two goals late in the game sealed the victory for the Sabres, 4-2. JP, Charlie, and Kelly break down the action and what this means now for the playoff race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re nearly at the end. The Philadelphia Flyers will play 6 games over the next 12 days, and they’ll have to earn playing any more than that this season with a few wins, beginning this weekend. Charlie & Bill look at Philly’s playoff odds, the remaining schedule, and which Flyers players need to step up to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Philadelphia Flyers are clinging to their spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for dear life with only six games remaining in the regular season. Reinforcements on defense in the form of Nick Seeler and Jamie Drysdale have arrived, returning from lengthy time out of action, and Russian sensation Ivan Fedotov has made his debut after a long saga to make it to the NHL. Will it be enough to push the orange and black over the finish line and into the postseason for the first time since 2020? Charlie, Kelly & Bill debate all things Flyers ahead of the final few weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a shaky first 20 minutes that saw Sam Ersson surrender a pair of goals, the new goalie stepped in! Ivan Fedotov made his NHL debut, beginning the middle frame in relief with Philly trailing 2-1. Jamie Drysdale also returned to the lineup tonight, and it seems like those events should be the energy boost this dragging Flyers club needs to get back in the win column after 4 straight losses. Noah Cates got the Flyers on the board in the 1st period, but the Islanders scored back-to-back goals in a span of 18 seconds. Sanheim netted a goal in the 2nd to tie it 2-2, but Anders Lee's goal made it 3-2 late in the 2nd period. Morgan Frost's game-tying goal with 9.6 seconds left sent the game to OT and gave the Flyers a much-needed point amidst a tight playoff race. Yet Frost and Drysdale's costly turnover in OT allows the Islanders to escape with a 4-3 win in OT. Bill, JP & Charlie break down the action, and take a look at the updated standings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Flyers are gassed. Or just regressing. Maybe both. Whatever the issue, against yet another bad team, Philadelphia came out and sucked again, dropping a game to the Chicago Blackhawks in the midst of a tight playoff race. What is wrong with the Orange and Black? Can they right the ship? Bill, Charlie & Kelly break down the action and check the scoreboard to see if anybody else in the East is going to step up and take the playoff spot that the Flyers have owned for months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What an awful game. The Philadelphia Flyers slept through the first two periods, then had a couple of goals disallowed for a kicking motion and offside in the third period, and so began the most important stretch of the season with a whimper. Philly played a bit more inspired/desperate in the final frame, but when you give away the first two periods you need everything to break your way, and that simply wasn’t the case for the Orange and Black on Thursday night. Bill, JP & Charlie break down the action and the playoff implications of the loss on a night the Capitals and Red Wings also played. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After an incredible back-and-forth game against the New York Rangers, ultimately resulting in an overtime loss, the Philadelphia Flyers are finally through the toughest part of their schedule, and they’re still holding the 3-seed in the Metro. But plenty of questions remain with nine games left in the regular season. Can Sam Ersson backstop this team to the playoffs? Will the blueline ever get healthy? And what the hell was John Tortorella thinking with his starting lineup in overtime against the Rangers? Bill, JP and Charlie discuss what’s next for the team as they head towards the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Philadelphia Flyers have not won a game against a Metropolitan division opponent since December 19th, head to NYC to faceoff with the Rangers, a team Philly hasn’t beaten in almost 2 years. Travis Konecny, Sam Ersson and the rest of the squad is also fending off the surging Washington Capitals, who can supplant Philly with a win on Tuesday night, and a Flyers regulation loss. 7 total goals were scored in the 3rd period alone, and Tyson Foerster's game-tying goal with 3:32 sent the game to overtime. However, the Rangers scored just 36 seconds into OT to win it. Charlie, Bill & JP break down the action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ten games left! That’s right, the Philadelphia Flyers have four weeks and only 10 games remaining on the schedule! Despite all sorts of injuries, turmoil, and Tortorella shenanigans, the Flyers are still holding onto a playoff spot, and the third seed in the Metropolitan division. Bill, Charlie & Kelly answer mailbag questions about the blueline, the future and discuss the current standings and how much Philly should lean on Sam Ersson down the stretch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices