Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes …
- Recaps: [BSH] [SBNation.com] [SB Nation Philly] [Inquirer] [delcotimes.com] [CSNPhilly] [Flyers Faithful] [Puck Daddy] [The Checking Line] [the700level] [NHL.com] [Daily News]
- James van Riemsdyk was part of a new line with Danny Briere and he had a pretty good game: [CSNPhilly] [The Checking Line] [NHL.com] [The Hockey Guys] [delcotimes.com]
- The Flyers held Ilya Kovalchuk without a shot on goal yesterday: [NHL.com]
- Overtime strategy is simple: Try to win by throwing pucks on net: [delcotimes.com]
- Listen to Tim Saunders call Danny Briere’s game winner: [the700level]
- Eric Wellwood is playing quite well: [Daily News]
- Fabulous infographic on the Flyers/Devils series: [BroadStreetBlogs]
- I went on the Driving Play podcast to preview the series, stole all of Chase W.’s thunder: [Driving Play]
- Flyers fan has jersey with “The Black Guy” on the name plate, thinks he’s hysterical: [Puck Daddy]
- Predators‘ Chairman hints that NHL owners will seek to rollback the players’ share of revenues: [The Tennessean]
- Keith Jones ripped Alexander Radulov for some awful play, which was both entertaining and deserved: [Puck Daddy]
- The top 25 bloopers of the NHL season. Warning, Autoplay: [TSN]
- An illustrated guide to the first round craziness: [Puck Daddy]
- Great shot of Brendan Shanahan taking a photo with a critic: [Puck Daddy]
- Good piece on the endowment effect and how it prevents teams from rebuilding: [Puck Daddy]
- Goal, Shot, and PDO graphs for all first round series’: [Arctic Ice Hockey]
- Excuses from the NHL’s losing teams: [Down Goes Brown]
- From Ben: “The whole idea of a hockey team being in Texas is rather ludicrous.” A random news report from the day the Minnesota North Stars were moved to Dallas. [YouTube] Also from that era, strippers in Winnipeg were donating their tips to try to save the Jets. [YouTube]
- Also from Ben: Jaromir Jagr is a superhero and hangs out in dark alleys to try to woo Czech cougars. [YouTube]
