The 57th Eurovision Song Contest is taking place this week in Baku, Azerbaijan. The first semifinal is Tuesday, the second Thursday, and the final is Saturday. As the American spiritual home of Eurovision, we here at Broad Street Hockey are committed to giving you the coverage of this momentous week that you deserve. Held every…
Just as you’d expect from them, Paul Holmgren and the Philadelphia Flyers have made giant contract offers to the two biggest names on the free agent market. Devils forward Zach Parise and Predators defenseman Ryan Suter have fielded offers all day long, and each received a hefty one from the Flyers according to multiple reports….
After a long, drawn-out, boring preseason in which the Flyers compiled a mediocre 3-4 record and Zac Rinaldo compiled 62 penalty minutes in six total shifts before being sent to the AHL, real hockey resumes tonight at the Wells Fargo Center. Zdeno Chara, Milan Lucic, Tim Thomas (ha oh wait nevermind) and Bill from King…
PITTSBURGH — With the 45th pick in the 2012 NHL Draft, the Flyers have selected Anthony Stolarz, a goaltender from the Corpus Christi IceRays in the North American Hockey League. Stolarz, a native of Edison, N.J., grew up a fan of the New Jersey Devils. His favorite player? Martin Brodeur. ISS has him ranked as…
The Flyers failed to sign 2010 seventh-round draft pick Brendan Ranford prior to a Friday 5 p.m. deadline, and as a result, Ranford will re-enter the draft in 2012. Ranford told Canadian hockey reporter Gregg Drinnan the news after Friday’s deadline. Ranford, 20, turned heads during his 2010-11 season with Kamloops, the year after he…
The Flyers signed head coach Peter Laviolette to a multi-year contract extension on Wednesday morning. It’ll keep him under contract with the team through the 2014-15 season, but as we all know with head coaches, that doesn’t mean much. Sure, the Flyers will be paying him until then regardless of what happens, but will he…
NEWARK — We’re here at Prudential Center for Stanley Cup Finals media day, and while most were swarming Jeff Carter and Mike Richards during Los Angeles Kings media availability, I had a chance to sneak in some one-on-one time with Simon Gagne. He’s yet to play in the postseason thus far, and while he’s been…
We don’t necessarily know when all of these injuries occurred, but we do know that five key Flyers were suffering from injuries during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. A full list was released by the team this morning, and it includes: Wayne Simmonds, who has already had surgery to repair a broken left index finger. He’ll…
PITTSBURGH — We’re on one side of the state for the NHL Draft tonight, and in two years from now, we’ll be back home on the other side of the state. The NHL announced today that the Philadelphia Flyers, Comcast-Spectacor and the Wells Fargo Center have been chosen to host the 2014 NHL Draft. It…
Ian Laperriere’s hockey career is over. The Philadelphia Flyers forward has retired from the game, and he spoke with the local media on a conference call today about his career and his future in both the organization and the sport. He knew this was coming for two years, and we all know that the salary…