*Vincent Lecavalier will start this season as a center, and he’s pretty excited about that. [ProHockeyTalk] *Lecavalier is also looking forward to starting this year with a clean slate. [CSN Philly] *The Phantoms will open up their new arena with an exhibition game against the Flyers. Should be fun. [BSH] *Travis Sanheim looked pretty good…
Claude Giroux has a lower-body injury, perhaps something wrong with his groin or leg, and he left practice just a few minutes into the first day of Flyers training camp Friday. Ron Hextall announced that the team is evaluating Giroux’s condition and will only say that it’s a lower-body ailment. Initial reports from Voorhees made…
Via multiple onlookers in Voorhees, here’s how the Philadelphia Flyers lineup looks as training camp officially kicks off today: Brayden Schenn – Claude Giroux – Jakub VoracekMatt Read – Sean Couturier – Wayne SimmondsR.J. Umberger – Vincent Lecavalier – Michael RafflJason Akeson – P-E Bellemare – Zac Rinaldo Braydon Coburn – Andrew MacDonaldNicklas Grossmann –…
*It’s preseason opener day! The players are ready for tonight’s split squad games against the Capitals and Leafs. [Flyers] *In case you forgot (you didn’t), Claude Giroux was injured literally minutes into training camp and will miss at least the entire preseason. Because of course. [BSH] *Hexy speaks about Giroux’s injury. [Flyers] *Vinny Lecavalier, R.J….
Craig Berube, Ron Hextall and the Flyers made their first round of cuts to 2014 training camp on Wednesday, but three big borderline names still remain: defensemen Samuel Morin and Shayne Gostisbehere, and center Scott Laughton. Three players — defenseman Travis Sanheim, center Radel Fazleev and winger Nicholas Aube-Kubel — were all sent to their…
It’s a quiet offseason. No hockey news to speak of for months, no reasons to be happy or sad or angry. But man, it sure happens quickly when hockey does come back, doesn’t it? The truest reminder that hockey season is back? Our favorite reader, Allen Miller, returns to the @BroadStHockey mentions on Twitter. We…
15 minutes on, two weeks off. That’s how Claude Giroux will spend most of Flyers training camp. Ron Hextall and the Flyers announced that Giroux will miss two weeks with a lower-body injury suffered early on the first day of camp Friday morning. It appeared as though he tweaked his groin, but of course the…
The Flyers announced Friday morning that with four preseason games left on the schedule — five if you count Saturday’s scrimmage “against” the “Lehigh Valley Phantoms” — they’ve made further cuts to their roster. Gone to the AHL are forward Taylor Leier and Darroll Powe. They’ll both be playing in Allentown this season, Powe the…
Your browser does not support iframes. Korbinian Holzer of the Maple Leafs was really not alright with the above hit from Wayne Simmonds during the third period of the Flyers game against Toronto on Monday night. Simmonds gave him a little bump at the end of the play (watch the video, it was really just…
The Flyers kick off the 2014 preseason Monday night in two different places … at the exact same time. This makes us feel funny, because we are mere mortals who can only be in one place at one time, yet we want to watch the Flyers in every possible way. Somehow, we will survive this….