Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes…
- The Flyers acquired Tom Sestito for Greg Moore and Michael Chaput: [BSH] [CSNPhilly] [Flyers Faithful] [Frequent Flyers] [In The Room] [Philly Sports Daily] [PostStar.com] [The Cannon] [The700Level.com] [Forsythe and the Flyers] [Daily News]
- An interview with Sestito. Audio at the bottom. Come for the ringback tone, stay for the chat. [The Checking Line]
- File under “Great timing”: Chaput is having a great second half of the season, with 12 goals and 11 assists since Christmas: [QMJHL]
- The players had a quite relaxing day, knowing they wouldn’t be traded: [CSNPhilly] [Philly Sports Daily]
- But that doesn’t mean they had an easy day yesterday. Laviolette skated them hard: [delcotimes.com]
- Holmgren felt the prices for players was too high, thus he was happy to stay put: [delcotimes.com]
- While Paul Bissonnette lost his closest friends on his team: [SBNation.com]
- A full wrap-up of the trade deadline: [SBNation.com]
- So remember all the fake tweets yesterday? Anthony SanFilippo writes a rather strong post on why they’re good for hockey media: [In The Room]
- Nick Boynton is a great addition to the team. I concur: [Philly Sports Daily] [Daily News]
- Chris Pronger and Blair Betts returned to practice yesterday, which is good: [Philly Sports Daily]
- The always great North American Weekly Report, starring Shane Harper, Oliver Lauridsen, and Nic Riopel this week: [Flyers Faithful]
- Justin Williams signed a four-year extension yesterday. JFtC loves it. You? [Jewels From The Crown]
- Then the Kings got Dustin Penner from Edmonton: [The Copper & Blue] [Jewels From The Crown]
- But Edmonton didn’t do their homework on Colten Teubert: [SBNation.com]
- Denis Bodrov signed a 2-year extension with his KHL team: [euroflyers]
- Which means is probably time to stop thinking of him as a Flyers prospect: [euroflyers]
- Looking at the best and worst trades, where Corey Pronman says he’d “love to see Philadelphia’s five-year plan from their management as of now, because for their sake I hope they know something that I don’t…” And plenty of other good criticisms: [Hockey Prospectus]
- Chuck Gormley moonlights over as CSN, with a great article on Coach Laviolette’s family: [CSNPhilly]
