Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes…
- Not a good day for the Flyers. First, James van Riemsdyk missed practice with a “minor lower-body” injury: [Philly Sports Daily]
- Then, Ville Leino admits that the Flyers attitude has room for improvement. “It’s a bit hard when we don’t have to win every game.” [euroflyers]
- And to top it all off, Mike Richards (and a couple others) criticized the coaches for constantly changing the power play: [Philly Sports Daily]
- But at least Nic Riopel was named ECHL goaltender of the week for the second time this year: [PostStar.com]
- And Tom Sestito is quickly becoming a must-follow on twitter. Here’s why: [The700Level.com]
- And the Mayor of Glens Falls is expected to announce upgrades to the Civic Center by the end of the week: [PostStar.com]
- A good take on the Twitter embarrassment some writers suffered yesterday: “Monday was the great re-education of hockey fans and hockey journalists about social media as a news source, thanks to these pranksters who decided to expose the logical failings, bad habits and systemic problems with the NHL trade deadline spectacle.” [Puck Daddy]
- The League of Extraordinary Statisticians look at the disparity between the West and East, wondering if it’s still there: [Behind The Net]
- Some random (and cool) pictures of interesting jerseys: [icethetics]
- Great video of the official trade call as Dustin Penner became a King: [SBNation.com]
- How to evaluate a player’s contract value: [Behind The Net]
- Which is great, because now there’s a way to laugh at the Sharks signing Antti Niemi to a 4 year/$15.2 million extension: [SBNation.com]
- Winners and losers at the 2011 trade deadline: [Down Goes Brown]
- Scottie Upshall scored CBJ’s lone goal in his first game as a Blue Jacket. Upshall now has 21 more points on the season than does Dan Carcillo. Not that I checked or anything. And hey, who says goals win hockey games? [Canucks]
- Attention stalkers: Claude Giroux will be at the Moorestown Mall tonight. Buy the kid an Elevation burger–he deserves one (sorry, Nick Boynton, that was the most exciting part of this article). [Courier-Post]
- A pretty fantastic look at Marty Reasoner, even though he isn’t a Flyer: [Flyers Faithful]
- Lastly, happy birthday Gabe Desjardins!
