Update: It’s official. As first reported by …. uh, Eklund … and confirmed later by various media outlets, the Flyers are prepared to sign Kimmo Timonen to a new one-year deal for the 2013-14 season. It’ll be worth $6 million. Personally, I probably would have waited at least another month or two to see whether…
ATLANTIC CITY — The rosters for Operation Hat Trick, the Hurricane Sandy relief hockey game to be held at Boardwalk Hall here on Saturday night, keep growing. According to the New York Times, Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson has been added to Team New York and Montreal Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban has been added to…
Ilya Bryzgalov’s CSKA Moscow blew a 2-0 second period lead en route to a 4-2 home loss against SKA St. Petersburg on Monday afternoon. Ilya Kovalchuk scored a hat trick on the Flyers goaltender. Bryzgalov didn’t look fantastic in his second KHL game of the season, but he certainly wasn’t at fault for the loss…
If you were waiting to buy tickets to Saturday’s Operation Hat Trick charity game in Atlantic City, you’re out of luck. Tickets, which ranged anywhere from $20 to $100 a piece, are sold out for the veritable all-star game, according to Ticketmaster. View the star-studded rosters here. Boardwalk Hall has a listed hockey capacity of…
So much hockey in Europe today, you guys. Let’s catch up. * Danny Briere and Claude Giroux continued their domination of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, combining for five points in Eisbären Berlin’s 5-1 win over Augsburg. Briere had three assists, while Giroux scored Berlin’s third goal and assisted on Jens Baxmann’s first period goal. This…
Oh, right, remember the Flyers? They’re a professional hockey team, and you like them! Now that the lockout is finally over, there’s hockey to be played. It’s been a while since we’ve talked about actual Philadelphia Flyers hockey around these parts, so let’s try as quickly as possible to get caught up on the team…
Shayne Gostisbehere could represent the both the Philadelphia Flyers organization and the United States of America at the 2013 World Junior Hockey Championship. The defensemen, selected by the Flyers with the 85th overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft, was named to USA Hockey’s preliminary National Junior Team roster and will join 25 other under-20…
It’s a relatively slow day today for Philadelphia Flyers players and prospects. Let’s take a look at everybody’s hockey day around the globe this Friday. The Adirondack Phantoms are not on the ice today in Voorhees, but cuts could come at any time now. They have one more South Jersey practice day on Sunday before…
It seemed as though Claude Giroux was on his way to either the KHL or the Czech league. The influence of Jaromir Jagr made it look like G’s decision was down to two clubs: Jagr’s former KHL team, Avangard Omsk, or his current Czech Extraliga club, HC Kladno. But in a pretty unforeseen decision, Giroux…
It took Wayne Simmonds a few games to settle into his role with ETC Crimmitschau, his German home during the current NHL lockout. He’s without a doubt the best player in the 2nd Bundesliga, the second-tier league in Germany, but he had only registered one assist in his first two contests with the club. That…