They said it<\/p>\n
“We’re not satisfied with how last year went. We got a taste, and now hopefully within the next year, next couple years, we’re right back in it, and going farther and deeper.” — forward Tyson Foerster<\/a><\/p>\n EDGE stat to watch<\/p>\n Vladar had an .861 high-danger save percentage during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, second to Jesper Wallstedt<\/a>\u00a0of the Minnesota Wild (.865) among NHL goalies to play at least five postseason games. Vladar also was tied with Wallstedt for the best 5-on-5 save percentage during the 2026 postseason at .937. Among the 51 goalies who played at least 30 regular-season games last season, Vladar had the third best goals-against average (2.42 in 52 games) behind Scott Wedgewood<\/a> (2.02) and Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a>\u00a0(2.31). After acquiring Woll, the Flyers now have two of the top 10 goalies in long-range save percentage from last season: Vladar was seventh in that category (.983), while Woll was ninth (.980). — Pete Jensen<\/p>\n Fantasy focus<\/p>\n Porter Martone<\/a>, who leads the fantasy top 10 rookie rankings<\/a> for 2026-27,\u00a0had 10 points (four goals, six assists), four power-play points, 32 shots on goal, 16 hits and averaged 17:02 in ice time in nine regular-season games last season. He then had five points (two goals, three assists), one power-play point, two game-winning goals, 23 shots on goal and 33 hits in 10 postseason games. The 19-year-old is expected to play on the top line and on the power play in his first full NHL season and is a must-have player in fantasy leagues counting hits and shots on goal. — Chris Meaney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said it “We’re not satisfied with how last year went. We got a taste, and now hopefully…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-781117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}