mark streit

The popular discussion among Flyers fans, certainly as evidenced by the questions in this on-the-fly #FlyersMailbag edition, is about Nick Schultz.

It’s a tough call for a defenseman, especially when the Flyers are trying to focus on team defense. To pinch or not to pinch? When a blueliner tries to help the forwards throw pucks on net from deep in the offensive zone, there’s a risk...

PHILADELPHIA – For all the work the Flyers have done recently trying to find chemistry among lines, special teams hasn't been a huge focus. The team worked on it in a morning skate before their first exhibition game against the Washington Capitals as per routine...

While the Flyers watch their last opponents, the New York Rangers, advance to the next round, they're still mending from the rigors of a season ended in the first round of the playoffs. Three Flyers went under the knife for surgeries, according to team president Paul Holmgren...

Even though they’ve played against each other about 25 times or so over the course of their careers, defensemen Mark Streit and Braydon Coburn don’t know each other all that well.

Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren wasn’t going to let it happen twice. Last time he traded for a defenseman that was a free agent-to-be, it was the summer of 2010 and Dan Hamhuis got away. Hamhuis made it clear he wouldn’t sign with the Flyers and Holmgren got a third-round pick out of Pittsburgh before Hamhuis eventually signed with Vancouver...

The Philadelphia Flyers have made their first move of the off season. The team announced today that they have acquired the rights for Islanders defenseman Mark Streit in exchange for a fourth round pick and prospect Shane Harper. Streit, 35, will become an unrestricted free agent on July 5th and the Flyers will have exclusive negotiating rights with him...