[Box Score] – [Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [Buffalo Reaction][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] PHILADELPHIA — Peter Laviolette made a guarantee after today’s 5-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres. Actually, maybe it was more of a “seriously, we’ve got this” statement. “I don’t think that any of…
It’s a slow news day (pre-emptive) in part due to the snow and in part due to the All-Star Break, but we got this tip from a reader today and since there’s nothing else to talk about, we might as well throw this up. Chris Pronger‘s puck-stealing was a story again last week thanks to…
[Box Score] – [Wire Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [Washington Reaction] [Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] PHILADELPHIA — Okay, so maybe that headline is a little facetious, but Andrej Meszaros was pretty damn awesome tonight, and I was thinking about leading with that before his game-winning OT…
Mike Chen at SBNation.com has a good read on concussions in today’s game. He relates the current culture around the issue with the way things were back in the late 90s when Eric Lindros was suffering from the same issues Marc Savard and Sidney Crosby are suffering from today. 2011 is a far different environment…
If there’s one thing that gets under my skin more than anything, it’s the belief that the stuff the Philadelphia sports scene is notorious for — the fighting in the stands, the dumping beer on opposing fans, the asshole chants, etc. — doesn’t happen anywhere else. Philadelphia, as we all know, has become the spitting…
This is Matt Carle‘s first NHL fight. Sean Avery proceeded to smash his head in three times here. While he was down. He is scum, and that’s putting it lightly. Oh, and for any Rangers fans trying to compare this to Dan Carcillo‘s beatdown of Marian Gaborik a year ago. A) Gaborik started that, and…
Peter Luukko, the President and COO of Comcast-Spectacor who oversees most day-to-day operations of the Flyers, spoke with Justin Johnson of The Hockey Writers yesterday in a lengthy sit-down interview. Among the topics discussed were the job Paul Holmgren’s done as general manager and the expected progress of the Philly Live! project. Philly Live! will…
From Elliotte Friedman at CBC: Philadelphia has a shot at next year’s Winter Classic, either at Lincoln Financial Field (home of the Eagles) or Beaver Stadium (home of Joe Paterno and Penn State football). Canadian version: Montreal really wants it, and will get it at some point. Appears only other possibility is Vancouver, and it…
RALEIGH — Claude Giroux and Danny Briere are housemates and Flyers teammates, blah blah blah, but they’ll be playing against each other in Sunday’s All-Star Game. Briere was selected in Round 6 by Team Lidstrom. Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks made the announcement for Team Lidstrom, which could be found as ironic for reasons…
Because we don’t want to take away from the original point here, read up on The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the top-ranked pediatric care center in the United States. And if you’re able, give back like Matt Carle. Remember back to last week when Matt Carle joined up on Twitter. He decided to use his…