Probably the best part of this clip from last night’s 24/7 is that Claude Giroux didn’t even really have to do anything extra to make Steve Ott look like a total moron. Ott basically just did it to himself. In case you can’t watch a video with a bunch of swearing at your place of…
Peter Laviolette has always had the tendency to ride the hot hand, and when Sergei Bobrovsky beat the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night, there was literally zero doubt in my mind that he should start the Winter Classic. He’s the better goalie right now, and it’s an enormous hockey game — both in terms of…
[Complete Coverage] – [Toronto Reaction] – [Discussion Thread][Event Summary] – [PBP Log] – [TOI Log] – [Faceoff Report][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Shot Differential] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] Coming off three straight losses, the Philadelphia Flyers absolutely needed to snap their win streak against a legitimately solid Toronto Maple Leafs squad. It was a bit…
Peter Laviolette is going with Sergei Bobrovsky in goal tonight, and it’s easy to understand why: Bob has ridiculous numbers against the New York Islanders. In eight games, he’s 7-0-0 with a .944 save percentage and a 1.86 GAA against them in his career so far. Meanwhile, Ilya Bryzgalov has only played in a handful…
[Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] Dear Rangers fan, Hockey goals and field goals are not the same thing. You look dumb. Sincerely, everybody. The Flyers lost last night. It sucked. No more first place in the Atlantic. No more first place in the East. We’re going to have…
We’ve been presented with the opportunity for an exclusive interview with a producer of HBO’s 24/7 Flyers/Rangers: Road To The NHL Winter Classic, and we want you to have the opportunity to ask the questions. It’s a producer of the show we’ll be chatting with, so the questions shouldn’t necessarily revolve around hockey. But we’d…
When the Flyers lost to the Bruins in the playoffs, Bobrovsky says he didn’t get the feeling that the Bruins would go all the way. “No, I didn’t even think about it. They are a good team and they played well against us. But it’s the playoffs. There are a lot of good teams and…
All that talk about how the Philadelphia Flyers defense is getting old — ahem, Kimmo Timonen and Chris Pronger — and how the signings of Braydon Coburn and Matt Carle will have a huge influence on the future of the club? Yeah, we can start talking about that sort of thing with a little more…
[Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] I don’t wanna say it. I don’t want to utter the word. I don’t want to call it that nasty, 11-letter C-word, because it might just be something that us onlookers create. Besides, if the team doesn’t see it as a problem, it’s…
One repeating theme in the Flyers’ roster management is that often their moves appear to be focused on the short term. From giving older players long, front-loaded contracts to adding players before they have cap/contract room for them; from acquisitions that put the team over the cap and result in a bonus penalty to trading…