Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes…
Geoff got the day off to rest him for the playoff push so in his stead I shall do my best Geoff impersonation-with some bad jokes thrown in, because that’s what I’m known for now, apparently.
- Recaps of last night’s win over my second favorite team, the mighty Panthers of Florida [BSH] PhillySportsDaily] [FlyersFaithful] [CSNPhilly] [Inquirer]
- Because we need to talk about Nodl more, he ended his scoring drought last night. Haters still gonna hate? [PhillySportsDaily]
- Blackhawks Coach Joel Quenneville was hospitalized yesterday, not something you’d wish on any team [SBNation.com]
- Atlanta Thrashers Ownership Claims ‘Sense Of Urgency’ As Relocation Talk Gets Louder…and Byfuglien’s getting LAAAARRRGGERRRR [SBNation.com] [Puck Daddy]
- Ville Leino missed last night’s game with a lower body injury (insert your own bad joke here) [PhillySportsDaily][BSH]
- With Leino out, Lavi chose Shelley over Zherdev, which says A LOT about Zherdev [InTheRoom]
- Blah blah blah token advanced stats article blah blah blah [ObjectiveNHL]
- Hartnell is streaky and knows blogs keep tallies of his falls. Why don’t we do this? [PhillySportsDaily]
- 21 saves on 23 shots for Jakub Kovář in a 5-2 win over Litvínov. [EuroFlyers]
- Jakub Kovar is starting enough games to make Marty Brodeur jealous. [NHL.com]
- Atlanta probably overpaid for Byfuglien…but that’s the future owners’ problem. [Behind The Net]
- Boston is looking for a defensmen at the deadline, preferably one that won’t choke. [SBNation.com]
- Rumors, and not the Fleetwood Mac kind. [SBNation.com]
- Lastly, since I love the Panthers so much here’s a random article about them. [LitterBoxCats]
- The price for players like my beloved Stephen Weiss went up because of the Versteeg deal [SBNation.com]
- Lastly, (see what I did there) You think the designer would do a Fly-By without linking to a design article? Ha! You jest. What if the Wild weren’t the Wild? [Icethetics]
