Following a season where he had the most points for any player on a playoff team and failed to be named a finalist, it shouldn’t come as any surprise Claude Giroux is entering the 2018-19 with fairly low odds to be named the league’s MVP. The Bovada MVP odds came out today, and the Flyers’…
We’re wrapping up the week here, folks, and we’re closing out our week of talking about our favorite Flyers who are also named Travis. I mean, there are only two of them. Not a large group to pick from. But we still love both of them. And we love talking about them… I’m rambling, aren’t…
Yesterday, all was well in Flyers nation. Valterri Filppula and Brandon Manning were blasted into the sun, James van Riemsdyk came back home, and we found ourselves patiently waiting for the month of August to tick by in anticipation of training camp getting underway. Well, at roughly 3:18 AM ET on this Wednesday morning, reports…
Earlier today the Flyers announced that they had made two more cuts to their training camp roster in Morgan Frost and Isaac Ratcliffe. #Flyers have reduced their Training Camp roster by 2 players: https://t.co/Adrs4ujF00 — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) September 18, 2018 Frost, the Flyers’ 2017 first round draft pick, was one of the many forwards…
The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook released their over/under odds for NHL team point totals for the 2018-19 season on Tuesday and were the first sportsbook to do so for the upcoming season. After a 98-point campaign last season, the over/under for the Flyers heading into the 2018-19 campaign is 98.5 points. Here are the odds…
Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals ended a decade of playoff misery by winning the franchise’s first Stanley Cup this past June. To make it even sweeter, the Caps eliminated the Pittsburgh Penguins on the way to their title. Although many of the same players are returning for the 2018-19 season, will Washington face adversity…
Yesterday we focused on the Flyers’ forwards and took a look at the predictability and repeatability of a few different statistics. Today we’ll be looking at the team’s defenders, revisiting those same statistics from a day ago, and will be introducing a third and final category in zone entry defense. Let’s start with what was…
Well, that was fast! After just three days of training camp, the Flyers have announced that they’ve trimmed their roster by four. They will be sending three prospects—Matthew Strome (OHL, Hamiltom), Maksim Sushko (OHL, Owen Sound), and Wyatte Wylie (WHL, Everett)—back to their respective Canadian junior teams. Additionally, they have removed Liam Hughes from his…
Flyers GM Ron Hextall announced to day that defenseman Andrew MacDonald sustained an off season injury and will miss six weeks. The announcement comes just one week prior to the opening of training camp. MacDonald scored 6 goals and collected 15 assists last season, averaging 19:51 minutes of ice time in 66 games. He served…
Check out the latest edition of Broad Street Hockey’s offseason Q&A series, Saturday Morning Scrambles. Bill answers questions about his fandom as a kid, his NHL dream team, and Corey Pronman’s no. 12 ranking for Philadelphia’s farm system. There’s points predictions for the Flyers top scorers, and a reminder that while it’s fun to look…