With their first pick in the fourth round, the Flyers drafted 6’1″ defenseman Colin Suellentrop. Suellentrop may not have gaudy numbers (14 points in 59 games for Oshawa of the OHL), but stay-at-home defensemen rarely do. The scouting reports on Suellentrop are that he is a big guy who can skate – huge positive –…
UPDATE 12:46 PM: Dave Isaac tweets that it’s a $25.5 million deal over the six year term, which would put the cap hit at $4.25 million per year. That’s more than Giroux makes, and that doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s not horrible if he can keep progressing, but well.. the focus is certainly…
For the first time since I can remember, a member of the Philadelphia Flyers is the winner of a major NHL award. He might not have played a game all season, but Ian Laperriere was rewarded for his courage in the 2010 playoffs, winning the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for dedication and perseverance. He beat…
Happy 4th of July. Go hug a Brit, today is awkward for them.
With the 68th overall pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, the Flyers selected center Nick Cousins from Sault Ste. Marie. Cousins is coming off a point per game season in the OHL, where he scored 68 points in 68 games. Cousins made Team Canada’s under-18 team, and scored between five and eight points in…
Step away from the knife. Step away from your loved ones. Go to a secluded place. Cry, yell, scream, break things, whatever. The Flyers traded Mike Richards to the Kings for Brayden Schenn and Wayne Simmonds not 45 minutes after they traded Jeff Carter to the Blue Jackets for Jakub Voracek, a 1st and a…
The 2011 NHL Draft is here, and the Flyers uh…. actually have a first round pick. They draft eighth thanks to the Jeff Carter trade, so they should be able to get a good player in return. Who will that be? We’ll find out later tonight. Talk about whatever the hell happens, good or bad,…
No clue on the money, but Braydon Coburn will be a member of the Flyers until the end of the 2013-14 season. Anthony SanFilippo reported at 12 p.m. today on FREE AGENT CRAZY FUN DAY that Coburn has been extended. We’ll follow up with more details and some analysis when it comes around, but this…
It’s Tom Sestito’s birthday today. He cleared waivers earlier this afternoon, a move that will allow the Philadelphia Flyers to send him down to the Adirondack Phantoms. He also was slapped with a four-game suspension from the NHL today. Happy 24th, bud! In reality, Sestito should probably feel lucky. He was only suspended four games…
Ville Leino was a freakin’ deal the last two years. The Flyers resurrected his career, he turned into quite the offensive power in the 2010 playoffs, and then had a decent 2011 season in which we learned that he’s as one-dimensional as one-dimensional players get in the NHL. We knew he was going to get…