Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes…
- After the first day of rookie camp, the story so far is Sean Couturier. At least the stories acknowledge how unlikely it is that he wins a job: [Philly Sports Daily] [CSNPhilly]
- Video of how Claude Giroux trained this summer: [Philadelphia Flyers]
- Profile on Brendan Ranford: [Flyers Faithful]
- The Flyers have sent a camp invite – but not received a response yet – to Adam Mair: [Frequent Flyers] [Philly Sports Daily]
- A great post looking at “soft goals” allowed by Tomas Vokoun and the Panthers last year: [Japers’ Rink]
- Ryan Callahan was named Captain of the Rangers: [Blueshirt Banter] [Puck Daddy]
- Patrick Sharp underwent an emergency appendectomy: [Puck Daddy]
- Predicting Jeff Carter to score 39 goals and 79 points next year: [The Cannon]
- The only player from Lokomotiv to survive the plane crash died as a result of his injuries: [SBNation.com] [Puck Daddy]
- Tributes were held around the globe for the victims of the crash: [Puck Daddy]
- Wayne Gretzky did a trick shot video for College Humor and it’s splendid: [SBNation.com]
- Are the Devils close to bankruptcy? [SBNation.com] The team denies the report: [SBNation.com]
- The real reasons the Devils are close to bankruptcy: [Down Goes Spezza]
- The Penguins‘ old home – the Civic Arena – cleared a hurdle to be demolished: [SBNation.com]
- Good story about a 14 year old girl and how NHL 12 will allow females to be created in the game: [Puck Daddy]
