Phantoms Practice Report + How do the Phantoms & Bears match up? ALLENTOWN – The Lehigh Valley Phantoms were back at PPL Center Wednesday afternoon continuing their preparation to host the Hershey Bears in Game One of the Atlantic Division Semifinals on Friday night. The big news of the day came after
Playoff hockey a long time coming for Mark Alt ALLENTOWN – Coming into his fourth year of professional hockey – all with the Philadelphia Flyers organization since being acquired in a trade back in 2013 – Mark Alt hadn’t been on a Phantoms team that qualified for the American Hockey League’s
Phantoms dominant early, unable to solve Copley in Game One Loss ***ALLENTOWN – The Lehigh Valley Phantoms’ first ever playoff game as the Flyers’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate in downtown Allentown needed more than 60 minutes to find not only a winner, but a goal scorer. Unfortunately for the Phantoms,
Phantoms squander two-goal lead, Lyon injured in third period ALLENTOWN – Hockey is an interesting game. Sometimes, a team finds themselves doing all the right things and controlling their opponent, but just don’t get the end result. The first two games of the Atlantic Division Semifinals between the Lehigh Valley
Phantoms extend series with thrilling OT win in Game 3 HERSHEY – After Saturday night’s gut-wrenching 5-4 loss in Game 2, Lehigh Valley Phantoms forward Greg Carey told media after the game “The pucks can’t go their way this whole series, we need to believe that.” With the Phantoms
HERSHEY – Wednesday night’s overtime win in Game Three for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms extended the best-of-five series to tonight’s Game Four (Hershey leads series 2-1). Their backs are still against the wall – facing elimination again tonight at Giant Center when the puck drops at 7:00 ET. After
Phantoms’ top scoring forward heading overseas While the Lehigh Valley Phantoms season ended on the last day of April, it’s a quick turnaround for Flyers’ pending unrestricted free agent forward Andy Miele. He confirmed to Highland Park Hockey Tuesday morning during the Phantoms’ locker room clean out day and
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Flyers’ 2014-7th round pick returns to native Sweden Jesper Pettersson won’t be returning to the Philadelphia Flyers organization in the fall. After completing his three-year entry level contract this past season, the undersized defensive defenseman is returning to his native country to play in Sweden’s pro league with
Phantoms will face four new teams, visit three new cities in 2017-18 The American Hockey League (AHL) announced new changes to the league’s divisions for the 2017-18 season on Thursday afternoon. Likewise, some of the league’s teams released their schedule breakdowns with how many times they will play
Sam Morin ‘rehabbing’ off-season surgeries Now that the Lehigh Valley Phantoms season has concluded, been wrapped up with exit interviews and confirmation of players signing overseas for next year has begun the hockey news for teams not still playing in the postseason begins to slow down for the most part.
Promotion From Phantoms Possible? *The Philadelphia Flyers – specifically general manager Ron Hextall – will need to hire an additional body to their NHL club’s coaching staff this off-season. Hextall opted not to retain the services of assistant coach Joe Mullen, making the announcement at the team’s season-ending news conference