Yesterday I published an article describing Balanced Corsi and Balanced Corsi Rel as new statistics for assessing someone’s performance relative to his similarly-used peers. In that article, I included a spreadsheet with the single-season data for all of the players who played in 3/4 of their team’s games. I didn’t include people with fewer games,…
Click to enlarge. We’re down to the Final Four in our Name That Line competition as we attempt to pick a name for the Scott Hartnell, Danny Briere, Ville Leino line. The results are in from Round Two and the semifinal matchups are set, so let’s take a look. First, the results, which are proof…
Ticket prices haven’t gone up in Philadelphia over the last three years, so we should have expected them to go up sooner rather than later. That’s exactly what’s happening, via Tim Panaccio at CSNPhilly.com: The Flyers also looked to see what tickets in the arena were and weren’t moving on re-sale and what prices people…
The following transcript comes courtesy of the Flyers PR department. Thanks for spending the first period typing, interns! We begin with Peter Luukko’s opening statement. Today is a great day for the Flyers. It’s a great day for not only our fans, but our players and our coaches, extending Paul [Holmgren]. Both Ed [Snider] and…
If you missed it the other day, we have a new post-game feature here at BSH. Thanks to Todd, New Zealand’s biggest Flyers fans, we’re now tracking scoring chances in our team’s games. You’ve likely seen similar data on CSN’s game broadcast, which for a lot of us is extremely frustrating. Why can’t they make…
According to Bob McKenzie of TSN, the Flyers have placed defenseman Matt Walker on waivers — about forty seconds after I posted a story based solely on today being a slow news day. Sheesh. With Chris Pronger back in the lineup, Walker earns a hefty $1.7 million salary essentially to sit on the bench. By…
[Box Score] – [Wire Recap] – [Game Page] – [Los Angeles Reaction][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] PHILADELPHIA — After Peter Laviolette tinkered with the lineup in an attempt to get some more offense out of his club, the Philadelphia Flyers certainly generated plenty of opportunities to beat the…
If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last few months or so, it’s that people who start rumors are usually just grasping at straws. They want so badly to be the one who BROKE THE STORY, ultimately so that they become FAMOUS and people VISIT THEIR WEBSITE, that they’ll literally just throw anything at the…
[Box Score] – [Wire Recap] – [Game Page] – [Carolina Reaction] [Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] PHILADELPHIA — It was a yawner for just about all 60 minutes, but at the end of the night, the Flyers came out on top with another two points. It’s really starting…
A new statistic has evolved in the community over the last several weeks. It’s called Balanced Zone Shifts (BZS) and aims to look at how good players are at moving the play from the defensive end to the offensive end.After the jump, we’ll walk through how it came about and how we might use it….