PHLY Philadelphia Flyers Podcast

Broad Street Hockey’s Maddie Campbell joins the show for a preview of the 2025-26 Lehigh Valley Phantoms. We’re breaking down their projected roster, which prospects could make the NHL jump in the near future, and who still has a lot to prove in order to get to that point.

Is 2026 supposed to be the year the Flyers ACTUALLY contend? What are the best and worst-case outcomes for this upcoming season? Favorite Netflix show currently? Bill Matz of the PHLY Flyers Podcast answers your extra mailbag questions on this edition of The Shootout! 

It’s a mashup of Flashback Friday, F-Around Friday and a regular episode today!As the offseason winds down, Charlie & Bill are preparing for their 10th season working together by recounting some of their funniest interactions with Flyers players and staff.We’ll also take a look at the goaltending situation, and if it matches Danny Briere’s stated vision of competing in 2026-27.

How confident is the fanbase in Danny Briere? How about the NHL audience as a whole? How does the NHL’s website rank Philly’s best prospects and biggest questions heading into 2025-26?Charlie is back today, and Bill is catching him up on a lot of the business of the last 2 weeks. Plus, getting more takes on mailbag questions about Summer 2026 and the Flyers goaltending, recurring dreams and weird athlete interactions.

Our friends at Broad Street Hockey have begun their annual ranking of Flyers young talent, the Top 25 Under 25. Our AHL/prospect correspondent Maddie Campbell (who also happens to be the managing editor at BSH) wrote one of the initial pieces in the series, breaking down the honorable mentions who didn’t quite make the Top 25.Maddie & Bill discuss several of the players who finished on the outside, and how players like Alexis Gendron (HM) and Samu Tuomaala (#25) can work their way higher up the list and closer to the NHL.

We’ve got Petey!Long-time NHL video coach Steve Peters is back today, answering mailbag questions (and general stuff Bill finds interesting) about the Flyers rebuild, Team North America from the World Cup of Hockey, Jeremy Roenick, Mullett Arena, and a whole lot more!

Tuesday Reviewsday is back! And today, we’re talking Adam Sandler’s latest masterpiece, Happy Gilmore 2!Bill & Kelly are sharing their favorite moments, jokes and cameos from the Netflix release, and their thoughts on a sequel to a 90s movie of their youth.Plus, a brief discussion on the possibility of bringing in another Anaheim Duck, the still un-signed Mason McTavish.

Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins have been public enemy number one in Philadelphia, but as the Pens slip towards a rebuild, are they still the Orange & Black’s most hated rival?Or has the emergence of the Carolina Hurricanes’ dominance of Philly surpassed Pitt? What about a western rival in Anaheim, since the Cutter Gauthier debacle? Are the still a lot of fans who can’t stand the New Jersey Devils or New York Rangers?Bill & Steve break down all 31 other teams and grade their hated level for each opponent.

Bill and Steve are going head-to-head, selecting the best possible lineup of hockey players from movies and series. How many Mighty Ducks could make the cut? Which of Slap Shot’s Charlestown Chiefs could end up on the ice? And could Shoresy be a bigger contributor in this exercise than expected? Plus, has anyone actually ever seen The Love Guru?

Happy Friday, fam!We’ve got some good stuff today, as we run ESPN’s Sports Misery Index to find out just how mad Philadelphia Flyers fans deserve to be. Plus, Steve and Bill share their best lineups of fictional hockey players. How many Might Ducks, Charlestown Chiefs and Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs will crack their lineups?