For the first time since 2007, the Flyers had a top-10 draft pick. They used it to select center Sean Couturier from Drummondville. It cost them Jeff Carter, but they were able to grab a guy who TSN compares to Jordan Staal. Seems like a Jeff Carter replacement. Bob McKenzie called him a shutdown forward…
Wayne Simmonds said something he shouldn’t have said, it was picked up by television cameras and he won’t be suspended or fined. Agree with that or disagree with that. We’ve had this debate on the site all day. Sean Avery said bad things that were picked up by microphones, too. He will also not be…
The Flyers announced today that Jon Kalinski has signed a one-year contract extension, and free agent goaltender Jason Bacashihua has signed a one-year deal with the team. They likely aren’t NHL moves. Kalinski’s chance with the Flyers has seemingly come and gone, and Bacashihua is essentially terrible with a career .897 save percentage in the…
After spending most of his summer in Kuopio, Finland, Kimmo Timonen is getting ready for a move back to Philadelphia. He’s been training already since the start of July and wants to be in good enough shape by training camp. “I’ve been enjoying the summer and training”, Timonen says. “I’m going back to Philadelphia in…
In what has been a common theme since Ilya Bryzgalov signed with the Flyers, many have stated that a better goalie will elevate the play of those in front of him by inspiring confidence. The difficult part of this statement is that it can neither be confirmed, nor denied. It sure sounds good, but the…
For a team that is so closely pegged against the salary cap and 50-contract limits, every small move has major consequences. Let’s take a look at how a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado wiping out the Wells Fargo Center. To start, the Flyers were under the cap last year and…
The Philadelphia Flyers will be in the house when the Boston Bruins raise their Stanley Cup banner next year, and surely, you can ignore the first half of that broadcast for some Phillies playoff baseball. While the season won’t start off the way we’d prefer, we do have a date now: October 6, 2011. The…
Ilya Bryzgalov has a funny voice. Here’s his press conference today in Voorhees. We weren’t there, so we don’t have anything extra to share… but uh, hey… he says he wants to win the Cup. Surprising, huh? Oh, and he brought up the fact that we have parks. Bryz loooooooooves him some parks. More later,…
This story was originally published last June, when we learned that Mark Howe would be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. We now know that yes, Howe’s number will be retired by the Flyers. It will happen tonight at Wells Fargo Center, and it should be pretty damn special. – Travis The Philadelphia Flyers…
Yeah, so that happened. In order to digest the news, Ben Rothenberg, Eric T. and myself recorded a special edition of BSH Radio without Travis. This was done at the end of a very long day for all of us, so while we try to make sense of it, we also largely try to cope…