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.
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PHLY Flyers Podcast | Reacting to John Tortorella and Danny Briere’s end-of-season press conferences

Charlie O'Connor and Bill Matz host the largest Flyers podcast in the world with guests from around the country and appearances from Steph Driver and Kelly Hinkle.

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Of course, on a mid-May edition of F-Around Friday, with the Stanley Cup Playoffs in full swing, we have Philadelphia Flyers news. Sort of. Maybe.
Conflicting reports coming out of Russia/Belarus are alluding to the idea that Philly goalie prospect Alexei Kolosov might be homesick enough to give up his NHL dream, at least for now, and return home to play in the KHL.
Bill and his honorary co-host Frankie, discuss the rumor, before getting into some playoff talk and then the official F-Around Friday topic- FIGHTS!
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PHLY Flyers Podcast | Alexei Kolosov Returning to KHL? F-Around Friday: Flyers, Friends, Fights

After a first round that saw five series go 5 or fewer games, we’ve got every series in the second round guaranteed to go at least six games.
Kelly and Bill take a look at each series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and attempt to take a lesson from each team for the Flyers to follow.
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PHLY Flyers Podcast | Stanley Cup Playoff close out games proving difficult in second round

It’s a fun game we play every spring, torturing ourselves over which player who once played for the Orange and Black is now excelling elsewhere on a Stanley Cup contender.
While the days of Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, Justin Williams and Patrick Sharp are behind us, there are still plenty of former Flyers still alive in this year’s postseason.
Bill & JP update each series and the performance of each former Flyer thus far.
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PHLY Flyers Podcast | Bobrovsky, JVR, Walker & more: Checking on former Flyers in the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Listen, it has been a long 14 years. We wish we had more to celebrate over the last decade-and-a-half, but May 14, 2010 was the highlight of Flyers fandom for much of the younger generations in Philly.
Bill & Kelly are looking back at 2010, as well as answering more mailbag questions and discussing tonight’s Stanley Cup Playoff action.
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PHLY Flyers Podcast | Happy Anniversary! On this date in 2010: Game 7 Philadelphia Flyers vs. Boston Bruins

The Monday Mailbag has returned in Charlie’s absence. Bill is flying solo today, so he’s enlisted the good people of Flyers Twitter to ask questions and they’ve come through.
We’re talking John Tortorella and the locker room, potential trades and re-signings of Travis Konecny and Morgan Frost. We’ve got Matvei Michkov speculation. Plus some fun questions about drinking buddies and tv shows.
We’ll also take a look at the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the various controversies surrounding Sam Bennett and the Florida Panthers.
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PHLY Flyers Podcast | Reacting to John Tortorella and Danny Briere’s end-of-season press conferences

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