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The Philadelphia Flyers honored founder Ed Snider before Game 3 of the playoffs in their first home game since his death last week. There were reminders of Snider on Monday night all around the Wells Fargo Center.
The Flyers can gain momentum and hope with a win. A loss, however, would be season-crushing.
The Philadelphia Flyers will have to try to mount a comeback against the Washington Capitals without one of their best players.
Wayne Simmonds dropped gloves with Tom Wilson at the end of the Philadelphia Flyers-Washington Capitals game one.
Center Sean Couturier will miss the rest of the Philadelphia Flyers' first-round series against the Washington Capitals because of an upper-body injury.
At times, you might have been forced to blink, thinking the Washington Capitals were playing with eight players on the ice, instead of five, in their opening NHL playoff game against the Flyers Thursday night, at the Verizon Center.
If the Flyers have any shot at toppling the NHL's best team, the Washington Capitals, it begins tonight.
In their last 10 games, the Flyers are 6-3-1. The Capitals are 4-3-3.
On April 21, the Flyers will hold a free event to celebrate the life of Ed Snider.
The Flyers open their first-round playoff series on Thursday in Washington D.C. against the Capitals.
Presidents' Trophy winners have advanced past the first-round 16 times in the last 21 seasons.
The loss of Ed Snider had been difficult for the Flyers' family. For the players, getting back on the ice proved to be therapeutic.
Rob Charry's one-hour special on the city's hockey patriarch, Ed Snider, will air at 10:00 p.m. on Thursday.
See what the Flyers' Stanley Cup and Eastern Conference odds are.
Ed Snider lost his battle to cancer on Monday, two days after the Flyers clinched a playoff birth.
