Last season, the Calgary Flames decided to acquire two players who they felt would benefit the team’s future. On January 30th, the Flames acquired Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee from the Philadelphia Flyers.
On January 30, 2025, the Calgary Flames made a bold move. They traded a struggling Andrei Kuzmenko, along with youngster Jakob Pelletier, a second-round pick and a seventh-round pick to the Philadelphia Flyers.
There’s an old saying in hockey: “they don’t put photos in the box score.” For the younger among us, that’s a reference to the old summaries of each game printed in the newspaper the day after games.
The Calgary Flames played their penultimate game of the preseason against the Vancouver Canucks last night in Calgary. They lost the game 8-1, by a huge margin.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
The only trade the Calgary Flames made during the regular season came on Jan. 30. They sent Andrei Kuzmenko, Jakob Pelletier, their 2025 second-round pick, and their 2028 seventh-round pick for Joel Farabee and Morgan Frost.
The Calgary Flames didn’t do much before the 2024-25 trade deadline. In fact, they only made one in-season move compared to six in the 2023-24 season. That only move came on Jan.
The Philadelphia Flyers are not headed for the playoffs in 2025. Knowing that's been the writing on the wall for a while, general manager sent two core players in Joel Farabee and Morgan Frost to the Calgary Flames in January.
On Saturday night, Calgary Flames forward Joel Farabee scored a goal – the team’s lone goal – in a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. The tally was his second in as many games and third in 13 games since arriving in Calgary.
It might be a while before a game featuring two Eastern Conference teams is completely meaningless in the playoff picture. Entering play on Tuesday night, five points separated seventh place in the conference from 13th, with 14th and 15th place just two and three points back of that pile, respectively.
The Philadelphia Flyers entered the season hoping to make up for their late-season collapse in 2023-24. Philadelphia had a playoff spot locked up for most of the season.
Just two games into the season, Philadelphia Flyers winger Joel Farabee was absent from practice due to what was ascribed to a “maintenance day”, per head coach John Tortorella.
After a dreadful, unproductive end to the 2023-24 season for Philadelphia Flyers forward Joel Farabee, it was generally considered a good thing that the 24-year-old would have the opportunity to play more hockey and back into a groove, featuring for Team USA at the Men’s IIHF World Championships in Czechia this month.
Flyers fans were delighted to learn earlier this week that Matvei Michkov could be joining the team next season. We weren’t expecting him so soon, after all… Because he’s under contract with SKA St.
In this edition of our 2023-24 Philadelphia Flyers player grading series, we take a look at 24-year-old winger Joel Farabee. The youngster is a veteran of 334 NHL games but had career-highs in goals, assists, and points.
Joel Farabee is one of many Philadelphia Flyers players who suffered through a very rough half of the 2023-24 season. Despite all of that, Farabee still enjoyed a career year overall for the Flyers, establishing personal bests in goals (22), assists (28), and points (50).
On Jan. 12, the Philadelphia Flyers capped off a two-goal comeback against the Minnesota Wild in overtime with a 4-3 win on the road. With Joel Farabee scoring the dagger, the Flyers moved to a 22-14-6 record on the season and got their second consecutive victory.