Mike Knuble News

While Stanley Cup dreams still remain for better than a third of the NHL , the offseason is officially underway for the Philadelphia Flyers .

The Philadelphia Flyers finished the season with a 23-22-3 record and missed the playoffs for only the second time in 18 seasons.

The Philadelphia Flyers have always been a high-spending team, signing players to obnoxiously large contracts for huge amounts of cash.

Claude Giroux's first season as Flyers captain was an enjoyable but frustrating learning experience.

Holmgren apparently wants to wait until after having season-ending interviews with his players in the next few days before making a decision on Laviolette.

Senators superstar blueliner Erik Karlsson returned last game after missing 31 games with an Achilles injury and assisted on both Ottawa goals in a 2-1 win.

Given the way it started in October, even Jason Akeson probably couldn't have predicted tonight's finish to the season.

STICKS RAISED in a salute, the Flyers gathered in a circle at center ice to mercifully bring the home curtain down on a forgettable failure of a shortened season.

It's still the 2013 hockey season for some reason, even though there are only three games left, and because of that fact, the Philadelphia Flyers have lost another defenseman to injury.

MIKE KNUBLE spent parts of five seasons with the Bruins. Flyers coach Peter Laviolette grew up in Massachusetts and his sister was a spectator at the Boston Marathon last Monday.

Jakub Voracek has to be the front-runner, but who deserves and who will win MVP honors and the Bobby Clarke Trophy this year? The Flyers will give out their annual team awards on Thursday night before their final home game of the season.

Once the Flyers close the regular season, Simon Gagne and his family will head to their summer home 15 minutes north of Quebec City.

There's no carefully dancing around it anymore--the Flyers aren't making the playoffs.