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They missed the playoffs for just the second time in the last 18 years, and their offseason wish list figures to include a productive winger and a top defenseman.

The Philadelphia Flyers ' season was full of highs and lows and ended with utter disappointment, as the team failed to make the postseason for the first time since 2007.

Luke Schenn picked up a lot of praise for his first season in a Flyers uniform. Let's talk about why that is, how good he was, and what to expect from him going forward.

That's not a knock - or at least, an intentional one. You see, Kimmo Timonen , Braydon Coburn , Andrej Meszaros , Luke Schenn and Nick Grossmann are all fine players.

Ed Snider gave an exclusive interview to the Inquirer over the weekend in which he discussed the past season and the Flyers plans going forward.

For more than half of the league, the NHL 's second season is just getting under way.

His first set of pads were foam, and he and his sister and the neighborhood kids used them in the family basement taking shots against one another.

Everyone has a different theory as to why the local hockey team was so flatly mediocre this year, but almost all agree the problems were most apparent when both teams had five skaters on the ice.

The NHL playoffs will begin this week. And for just the second time in the last 18 seasons, they will do so without the Philadelphia Flyers.

Not this year. Not after the Flyers failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 2007 and only the second time since 1995.

Goalie Ilya Bryzgalov took some undeserved flak the other night when answering a question about what it would mean if the Flyers won their final four games and finished 23-22-3. "What's the point? There's no difference," he said.

The Philadelphia Flyers will have their hands full this offseason, after the team failed to make the playoffs for only the second time in its last 18 seasons.

A season that began with so much anticipation, hope and promise will end with a whimper for the Philadelphia Flyers this Saturday in Ottawa .

Flyers right wing Jakub Voracek is favorite to be named tonight 2012-13 winner of the Bobby Clarke Trophy as team MVP.

Unless you include call-ups Erik Gustafsson and Brandon Manning, who played a combined 34 games with the team last season, no defenseman in the Flyers' lineup in Tuesday night's win against the Bruins was on last year's roster.

The Philadelphia Flyers were officially eliminated from the playoffs more than a week before the end of the season, which was not exactly how fans were hoping this season would turn out.

Kimmo Timonen, the best of the Flyers' few healthy and many of their injured defensemen, was told repeatedly over the last two weeks to get an MRI on his sore right foot, and he kept refusing while insisting he was feeling better.

Hello. Today we talked to SBN Hockey Editor and Broad Street Hockey's own Travis Hughes about the hilarious state of the Flyers .

Now that the Flyers officially will miss the playoffs, Timonen will sit out the Flyers' final three games with a compression fracture in his right foot.

Boston will always have a special place in Flyers winger Mike Knuble's heart, and not just because he spent parts of five seasons of his career there between 2000 and 2004.