The Philadelphia Flyers and interim general manager Danny Briere is getting right to their summer business. No waiting around to sort out the deals that they need to get done as they have re-signed a young blueliner that was hitting restricted free agency. Announced by the team on Tuesday afternoon, the Flyers have re-signed defenseman…
That’s a wrap on the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and what a first round it was! Drama everywhere! Upsets abound! Curses shaken off (maybe)! It’s hard to imagine that the second round will be able to clear the excitement bar set here, but the door for that does remain wide open. We’ve…
It is difficult to know where to begin with this one. Ivan Provorov made the news for many reasons this season. The Philadelphia Flyers value him as a top-pair defenseman upon whom the team can rely for big minutes and relatively consistent play at both ends of the ice. Yet, Provorov’s hockey skills were probably…
The news of the week It’s been a pretty quiet week around here! We’ll talk a little more about this later, but the big news of the week is that playoffs will be continuing somewhere in the Flyers organization, generally, at least. Their ECHL affiliate in Reading knocked off the Maine Mariners over the weekend,…
*The second round begins tonight! After the Game 7 madness of the last two nights a breather would have been nice but no ma’am, the ‘yoffs wait for no one. [ESPN] *Related, that Bruins meltdown sure was nuts, eh? Turns out, doesn’t matter who you are, it is damn hard to win in the NHL…