The World Cup of Hockey officially began yesterday, with the four teams in Group A getting their first action of group play in. Today, it’s the four teams in Group B that will get their chance to make a good first impression and take a step towards the elimination round. *** Yesterday’s Results: Team USA…
The World Cup of Hockey continues on Monday with two games. First at 3 p.m. ET, Team Europe — a collection of Europeans from various countries that didn’t have their national teams qualify for the tournament — will take on the Czech Republic. Europe handled the United States easily on Saturday afternoon, 3-0, while the…
An escalator carrying fans at the Wells Fargo Center broke after today’s Flyers win, sending fans hurdling toward the ground. There were injuries, but it’s unclear if any were serious. Something in the escalator apparently malfunctioned, causing the speed to accelerate. A pile of bodies formed at the bottom as people scurried to get out…
Ray Emery is officially sticking around. The Flyers announced Friday afternoon that they’re signing the veteran goaltender for the remainder of the season. He’s not eligible to play in the postseason, but Michal Neuvirth is expected to be back if the Flyers do make the playoffs. Anthony Stolarz is also still on the roster, so…
UPDATE, Sunday 9/4: Jedlicka reported today that coach Josef Jandac confirmed that Gudas’ injury was a wrist injury. Czech coach Jandac about Gudas: “He has hairline fracture in his wrist. He can’t even hold the stick.It happened during practice in Canada.” — Roman Jedlicka (@jedli) September 4, 2016 Not great news for Gudas, but Jedlicka…
Remember that Flyers game back in December against the St. Louis Blues? Ron Hextall does. As the team was on the ice in South Philadelphia that night, Hextall was out in Southern California at Ed Snider’s house to watch the game with his boss. At the time, we called that game “the biggest comeback of…
UPDATE, Sunday 9/4: Jedlicka reported today that coach Josef Jandac confirmed that Gudas’ injury was a wrist injury. Czech coach Jandac about Gudas: “He has hairline fracture in his wrist. He can’t even hold the stick.It happened during practice in Canada.” — Roman Jedlicka (@jedli) September 4, 2016 Not great news for Gudas, but Jedlicka…
This story was written by Eric T. It begins here. It continues here. This is the final portion. And the third and final scoring chance is the only goal of the game: We join this one when the board battle has just been completed. Having been beaten along the boards and knocked down by a…
There’s an adorable story about Wayne Simmonds and a young black hockey player, presumably from the Philadelphia area, that’s going around on Tumblr today. It’s told by a 22-year-old Tumblr user from Philly named Samantha, or patriceberg. Here, unedited: so today my professor told us how she found her 8 year old neighbor crying on…
About an hour or so after the Flyers and forward Brayden Schenn were scheduled to begin their arbitration hearing on Monday morning, the team announced that they had reached an agreement with the restricted free agent forward: Per GM Ron Hextall, the #Flyers have agreed to terms on a four-year contract with Brayden Schenn →…