Author: Ben Rothenberg

The BSH Eurovision Finals Round-up

By Ben Rothenberg | May 12th 2023 | 14 min read |

In one of the most thrilling developments in this new era of orange so far, the great folks at Broad Street Hockey asked me if I would write about the...

Delayed gratification: Flyers win Game 2 in OT, 4-3

By Ben Rothenberg | Aug 26th 2020 | 4 min read |

One of my favorite discoveries of getting armpit-deep in Flyerland again during this summer swing has been the Philadelphia Cocky/Distraught meter, as...

Tale of the Tape

By Ben Rothenberg | Aug 24th 2020 | 5 min read |

It wasn’t that I didn’t have friends as a kid, it’s that there were certain barriers to entry to friendship with me that resulted in struggles i...

Flyers win playoff series for first time in eight years

By Ben Rothenberg | Aug 21st 2020 | 6 min read |

“So, if you’re out tonight, don’t forget: if you’re on your bike, wear white. Amen.”-The Rolling Stones All the Flyers jerseys I’ve bought...

Flyers lose normal hockey game

By Ben Rothenberg | Aug 20th 2020 | 5 min read |

Now for something completely different, the Flyers and Canadiens got together and played a pretty normal hockey game on Wednesday evening in Toronto. ...

The Flyers were terrible for once and I feel much better

By Ben Rothenberg | Aug 14th 2020 | 3 min read |

I’m starting to write this post because NBC Sports Network just decided, midway through the second period, that the game between the #1 seed in the ...

Every Rosehill has its goalhorn: Flyers 4, Oilers 2

By Ben Rothenberg | Feb 25th 2019 | 6 min read |

So I saw my ol’ buddy Travis Hughes on my list of GChat contacts the other day and I was like, “Hey, I miss that guy, I should totally try...

The Two O'Clock Number

By Ben Rothenberg | Feb 17th 2019 | 1 min read |

∞  — Number of times you should watch this, the greatest .gif in the history of pixels. Click to animate. Happy anniversary, everybody....

The Two O'Clock Number

By Ben Rothenberg | Feb 17th 2019 | 1 min read |

1* — The number of new banners that will be hanging from the Wells Fargo Center rafters because of the successes of the 2010-11 season. (* becau...

The Two O'Clock Number

By Ben Rothenberg | Feb 17th 2019 | 1 min read |

2 — Hat tricks Rick Tocchet earned in three games against the Winnipeg Jets during the 1989-90 season. In the second game, Tocchet added a fourt...