The Flyers rookies took on the Washington Capitals rookies today at the Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees. In a dominant performance the Flyers took the win 3-0 in a game that saw goals from Petr Straka, Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Kevin Goumas.

In this latest image of Claude Giroux making its rounds around the internet we see him chatting up some girls while being arrested for grabbing a police officer's ass. The Flyers captain remains stoic, still smiling, still wearing what appears to be a Phillies hat. Have to imagine that one of the girls, or possibly his friends put him up to the stunt. It's not everyday that your team captain gets arrested for grabbing police butts, but it looks like Giroux played this one off well, much like we as Philly fans will need to do when Penguins/Rangers/Devils fans try to bring this up mockingly this season. Somewhere out there, Jeff Carter is quietly chuckling.

Note that it's also daylight and yesterday was Canada's version of our 4th of July, so what famous Philly athlete could we see in a picture like this from the shore this Friday?

-Ben Lebo

In what has been a dry spell lately for Flyers news, Ron Hextall announced today that the Flyers have signed Frenchman Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to an NHL contract. 

Nobody wanted it to end this way, but tonight the Flyers usual third period magic just wasn't there. They were done in by poor play (except from Steve Mason) in the first two periods and couldn't quite recover. The Rangers took the game by a score of 2-1 tonight and will move on to play the Pittsburgh Penguins in the next round, while the Flyers prepare for the offseason.

Where has this version of the Flyers been all this series? After struggling to mount any offense, even in the victories, the Flyers (mostly Wayne Simmonds) reawakened tonight with 5 goals. Thanks to the 5-2 victory we now have a game 7 situation on our hands tomorrow night in New York. If the Flyers can channel the energy they had the last 70% of tonight's game and use it tomorrow they can definitely advance to play Pittsburgh next round...and you thought the embellishment calls were over.

This game was a struggle to watch. The Flyers didn't necessarily play a bad game today, it just looked like New York was a better team out there. The Flyers scored 1 goal on the power play, but failed to do anything on the other 4, not even registering a shot on the first one. They were simply outmatched and the Rangers were taking advantages of their opportunities where the Flyers failed to. The series now heads back to Philadelphia for a Tuesday night game 6. The Flyers have their backs against the wall, but this is often where they shine, so anything could happen.

They said it couldn't be done, but I worked the title of an Incubus song into the title of an article. Now let's Drive into the recap. The Flyers tied the series with the Rangers 2-2 tonight thanks to goalie Steve Mason more so than anyone. Mason denied 37 shots out of 38 tonight to anchor the Flyers as they fought for a hard-earned 2-1 victory.

The winless streak at Madison Square Garden dating back to 2011 finally ended this afternoon. After going down early in the game 2-0 the Flyers battled back to win 4-2 and tie the playoff series at 1-1. The Flyers now head back to the Wells Fargo Center for Tuesday's Game 3 with the momentum in the series.

The Flyers jumped out to an early lead thanks to Andrew MacDonald, but it wasn't nearly enough to get the game 1 win. After a stagnant second period, rookie Jason Akeson got a little loose with his stick and slapped Carl Hagelin's mug in the neutral zone. This led to a four minute double minor that the Rangers took advantage of with 2 goals to push the score to 3-1. From that point the Flyers just looked sloppy and coasted to a 4-1 finish. They now trail in the series to New York 0-1.