If Michkov was playing in the 90's, he would be fine. For today's game, he is a turtle out there. How is he so slow still? He was "faster" last year but still really slow. That should be his main focus this off season, conditioning and skating. He is only a power play specialist without speed. He is always cherry-picking ahead to try to get a fast break opportunity and then doesn't bother to hustle back on defense when they play goes the other way. I can understand why Toch isn't giving him many minutes. He is a turnover and cherry-picking machine at the moment.

They need to increase the overtime to 10 minutes, hate the shootouts

6 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

They need to increase the overtime to 10 minutes, hate the shootouts

They should go to a 4-4 10 minute overtime period. The shoot out is a farce and so is 3-3 hockey. If after 10 minutes there is no score, the game ends in a tie.

On 12/15/2025 at 2:23 PM, Joe Shades 73 said:

They need to increase the overtime to 10 minutes, hate the shootouts

The shootout should be replaced by the punch out. Best-of-3 hockey fights, and the combatants are chosen at random from all the sticks thrown to the center of the ice.

If you told me the Flyers would be 8th in the NHL in goals against after 32 games I’d have laughed. Still sitting in a wildcard spot but lots of season left, including a ridiculously long layoff for the Olympics. Who knows who will carry any momentum out of that length of inaction.

PP and goal scoring are still subpar.

58 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

The shootout should be replaced by the punch out. Best-of-3 hockey fights, and the combatants are chosen at random from all the sticks thrown to the center of the ice.

No thanks I’ll take the tie

2 hours ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

They won last night as well, so they go into the Christmas break at 19-10-7 for 45 points in 36 games, which would prorate out to 102 points (or so) over an 82-game season and certainly a playoff spot. Goes to show what a commitment to keeping the puck out of your net does for your fortunes; Trevor Zegras is the only offensive change of note from last season, while Dan Vladar has been a vast improvement in net. The biggest change is the system change from Tortorella to Tocchet, and the accompanying change in culture.

The Philly media is trying to drive a wedge between Michkov and the organization, purely to create drama, but so far Tocchet and Brière haven’t taken the bait.

Same old Flyers. Why not give a soon to be 30 year old journeymen a fat 5 year contract extension with a NMC? What could go wrong? Danny got bent over tremendously.

12 hours ago, Blazehound said:

Same old Flyers. Why not give a soon to be 30 year old journeymen a fat 5 year contract extension with a NMC? What could go wrong? Danny got bent over tremendously.

Yep, dumb. Briere contradicted himself with this signing. He's said many times that he doesn't like giving out long term contracts to players that hit age 30. This is also a career year for him. I'm assuming that since there is such a dearth of centerman in their pipeline that they felt they needed to do this. They must also not feel comfortable with how Luchanko is developing. If they felt that he would be up soon, I'm thinking they wouldn't have re-signed Dvorak. That Luchanko pick may come back to haunt them. It's possible Dvorak could have continued to perform and at the trade deadline they could have gotten a nice package for him to collect more assets.

Cunter’s return game.

That one timer with that angle was insane.

Ever since Danny B did the dumbest contract signing of his tenure the Flyers lost Michkov, Brink and Drysdale all to injuries. Great, and Foerster is out for the year too.

On 1/5/2026 at 9:00 PM, Blazehound said:

Same old Flyers. Why not give a soon to be 30 year old journeymen a fat 5 year contract extension with a NMC? What could go wrong? Danny got bent over tremendously.

On 1/6/2026 at 10:02 AM, vsptroops said:

Yep, dumb. Briere contradicted himself with this signing. He's said many times that he doesn't like giving out long term contracts to players that hit age 30. This is also a career year for him. I'm assuming that since there is such a dearth of centerman in their pipeline that they felt they needed to do this. They must also not feel comfortable with how Luchanko is developing. If they felt that he would be up soon, I'm thinking they wouldn't have re-signed Dvorak. That Luchanko pick may come back to haunt them. It's possible Dvorak could have continued to perform and at the trade deadline they could have gotten a nice package for him to collect more assets.

Yeah why can't Danny B just go to the Stud 1C tree and pick one off, there's a ton of of them out there.

1 hour ago, Bill said:

Yeah why can't Danny B just go to the Stud 1C tree and pick one off, there's a ton of of them out there.

Yes, let's overpay a soon to be 30 year old center who's career year in points was 6 years ago with 38, to a 5 year contract because they dont have any other options. Gee, people wonder why they've been an irrelevant and incompetent franchise for over 15 years. 😂

2 hours ago, vsptroops said:

Yes, let's overpay a soon to be 30 year old center who's career year in points was 6 years ago with 38, to a 5 year contract because they dont have any other options. Gee, people wonder why they've been an irrelevant and incompetent franchise for over 15 years. 😂

They’re literally second in the division from a point % standpoint.

I think Danny knows what he’s doing.

8 hours ago, vsptroops said:

Yes, let's overpay a soon to be 30 year old center who's career year in points was 6 years ago with 38, to a 5 year contract because they dont have any other options. Gee, people wonder why they've been an irrelevant and incompetent franchise for over 15 years. 😂

Nailed it

Flyers are back to being a very bad hockey team. Never seen a team struggle more to clear the puck than this team. Once again no offense, no defense, no power play and no goaltending. Same garbage different year.

1 hour ago, RoadToHell said:

Flyers are back to being a very bad hockey team. Never seen a team struggle more to clear the puck than this team. Once again no offense, no defense, no power play and no goaltending. Same garbage different year.

I am sure bill the Flyers apologist will let us know everything is great

Reverting back to their true identity. This is what happens when unsustainable goaltending masks a below average team devoid of any high end talent. No true 1 or 2 center on the roster, nor the prospect pipeline, and the same for the defense. This is not going to change any time soon. Year 12 of the perpetual retool.

Flyers losing streak at 6. Anyone here surprised? Well, there is 1 person I'm sure that is. Thats ok though. They signed Dvorak to a 5 year deal.

How long is vladar out