Ed. Note: Much thanks to Tom Awad and Timo Seppa over at Puck Prospectus. They answered all of my questions and provided me with a lot of numbers that they didn’t include in their original post. Without that, I wouldn’t have been able to write this. As posted earlier, Puck Prospectus published it’s VUKOTA Projection…
The Fourth Period and the Ottawa Sun are both reporting that the Philadelphia Flyers are interested in forward Brendan Shanahan. Most recently, Shanahan played for the New Jersey Devils. He was cut by that team on October 1 after several young players pushed him out of a roster spot. “Over the past couple of days…
In case you missed it, the mainstream media took yet another shot at Flyers‘ Captain Mike Richards today. For those familiar with the Flyers, this is nothing new. There has been an on-again off-again feud going since last year, most recently peaking with Richards’ refusing to speak to the media for a month. Tim Panaccio,…
On this week’s edition of Broad Street Hockey Radio, we speak to Mike Boone, the columnist from the Montreal Gazette who compared the Flyers to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Mr. Boone gave us his justification for making the comments, which were considered outlandish by some and downright offensive by others. He also responded to a…
If you could pinpoint one major problem with the Calgary Flames this season, it would be their offense. Ranked just 22nd in the NHL in goals per game, the Flames aren’t a team that was built around offense. With goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff and what was thought to be a world-class defense in front of him,…
When most of us think Oilers vs Flyers hockey, we look back to the 1980s, and more specifically the 1985 and 1987 Stanley Cup Finals. The Oilers were in the hay day of their dynasty. With Gretzky, Kurri, Fuhr, Messier and Coffey, they were virtually impossible to beat. Many will say that if that dynasty…
If you ask Anaheim’s James Wisniewski to list dirty players on the Flyers‘ roster, you’d be surprised to hear that forward Danny Briere might make the cut. Wisniewski injured his shoulder in the third period in Philadelphia on Saturday night, and he blames everybody’s favorite number 48. From the Orange County, California Register… “[Briere] decided…
For the last several days, all five Atlantic Division teams–the Penguins, Rangers, Devils, Flyers, and Islanders–have been in the top seven of the standings in the Eastern conference, their supremacy interrupted only by the respective division leaders of the Southeast and Northeast Divisions. It’s probably not reasonable to expect all five Atlantic teams to make…
It’s pretty safe to say that Johan Backlund won’t play in a game for the Philadelphia Flyers this season. The goalie, in his first season of North American hockey, was called up in early December when Ray Emery went to the injured reserve with an abdominal injury. Brian Boucher was right behind Emery to keep…
I’m probably just stating what we already know, but Riley Cote has no worth on the Philadelphia Flyers. It’s really a shame, too, because Riley is truly a great guy. He does a ton of work in the community and works with several charities, especially those involved with fighting against multiple sclerosis, which his sister…