Paul Holmgren

Condensed NHL season results in a reshuffling of the playoff deck

2013-04-29 00:00:00

The Stanley Cup playoffs will have a different look this season and not only because the Kings, for the first time in franchise history, are the defending champions. This condensed season produced a lot of injuries and a lot of dramatic playoff races....

Fixing the Flyers: The Forwards

2013-05-08 01:34:02

KEY STATS 2.77: Goals per game in 2013. 7th: Rank in scoring in East. 3.22: Goals per game in 2011-12. 50-43-37: Goals by period for the Flyers this season, which tells a huge story. Their 37 third-period goals were 26th in the NHL; their 50...

Cote spreads good will to Lehigh Valley hockey community

2013-05-01 18:55:00

Riley Cote knows a thing or two about ice hockey, and he's ready to share that with the Lehigh Valley. Cote, the former Philadelphia Flyer and current assistant coach for the team's top minor league affiliate Adirondack Phantoms, paid a visit to the...

Flyers come up short again

2013-04-29 20:47:31

The Philadelphia Flyers started their summer vacations much earlier than expected. For just the ninth time in franchise history, the Flyers aren't going to the playoffs. They finished 23-22-3 in the lockout-shortened NHL season, and are facing an...

Philadelphia Daily News Rich Hofmann column

2013-04-29 05:04:02

ILYA BRYZGALOV performed his final stand-up routine of the season yesterday; please, tip your servers and try the caviar. It really was a Tour de Bryz. His target this day was the media. At one point, he said that perusing stories written about him --...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jeff Gordon column

2013-04-29 08:14:02

The NHL's Western Conference produced some great playoff storylines. The Blues earned the home-ice advantage for the first playoff round and another crack at toppling the Los Angeles Kings. "They're not going to forget last year," Kings coach Darryl...

Flyers Notes: Laviolette will be back as Flyers coach, Holmgren says

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Peter Laviolette will return as the Flyers' coach next season, general manager Paul Holmgren said on Sunday after the players cleaned out their lockers at their Voorhees practice facility. Laviolette has two years left on his contract, but Holmgren...

Flyers have enough talent, Holmgren says

2013-04-29 00:00:00

General manager Paul Holmgren said the Flyers, who completed their lackluster season on Saturday, need just a little offseason tweaking to return to the playoffs. "I still think we have good-enough talent to win," Holmgren said. In a far-reaching, 24-...

Flyers close season with win over Ottawa

2013-04-28 01:44:02

Flyers close season with win over Ottawa penn OTTAWA -- The Flyers, with winger Jason Akeson scoring an early goal in his NHL debut and goalie Steve Mason giving another outstanding performance, ended their disappointing 23-22-3 season with a 2-1...

Gov. Malloy Open To Having NHL Hockey Back In Hartford

2013-01-07 16:03:24

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday he is talking to investors seeking to bring an NHL franchise to Hartford, but he emphasized the return of hockey remains a remote possibility. "I have spoken to individuals who have expressed a desire to bring a team...

Flyers playoff hopes against Pens rest on Bryzgalov

2012-04-10 18:34:00

As just about everyone with a passing interest in hockey has heard by now, Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov fears no man, just bears in the forest. It's a good thing he threw in the "in the forest" part of that comment after practice on Monday....

Flyers cause of death: Poor decisions

2012-05-09 17:55:00

The autopsy isn't official or with a definitive conclusion, but the preliminary results for the cause of playoff death for the 2012 Philadelphia Flyers is simple: they faced a better team with better coaching. As hard as it may be to admit for Flyers...

Philadelphia Flyers General manager, Paul Holmgren, attends a ground-breaking ceremony for the Allentown hockey arena which will host the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, a Flyers farm team.

2012-11-29 15:24:00