(Try that again. It’s Tuesday. Tuesday. Tuesday. I’m a maroon.)
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes…
- Matt Read will return on Wednesday: [Frequent Flyers] [Philly Sports Daily]
- Winter Classic Jersey Speculation! GAHHHHH: [SB Nation Philly] [Puck Daddy] [icethetics]
- Maxime Talbot is filling his role as “glue guy” quite well, something the Flyers haven’t had since Ian Laperriere: [CSNPhilly]
- Jim Jackson’s weekly feature, including whether the Flyers break will help or hurt: [CSNPhilly]
- Arguing that Paul Holmgren’s strategy of signing undrafted free agents is paying off: [Philly Sports Daily]
- Future Flyers Weekly Report starring Brendan Ranford and Niko Hovinen: [Flyers Faithful]
- Power Rankings for Week 4, where some teams are still defying the odds: [SB Nation Philly]
- Travis wonders how Scott Arniel still has a job by looking at how terrible the Blue Jackets played: [SBNation.com]
- Another excerpt on how Grant Fuhr treated the media, and how nothing has changed in how useless interviews are: [Flyers Goal Scored By…]
- Scary sight as Daniel Paille took a slapshot to the face. Warning, there’s a graphic photo of his helmet: [Puck Daddy]
- Justin Bourne sees how well Mike Smith is doing in Phoenix and wonders if maybe it was Dave Tippett, not Ilya Bryzgalov, that made the Coyotes good: [Backhand Shelf]
- Sharks coach Todd McLellan disputed his team’s poor PK performance with analysis Eric explained last year: [Arctic Ice Hockey]
- A really good look at how coaches are using their players, only this time looking at number of faceoffs in each zone per 60 minutes of play: [The Copper & Blue]
- Mike Richter wasn’t as good as everyone thinks. Why? Home scorer bias: [Brodeur is a Fraud]
- A monthly recap of trends that will and won’t continue in the NHL: [Driving Play]
