It’s Tom Sestito’s birthday today. He cleared waivers earlier this afternoon, a move that will allow the Philadelphia Flyers to send him down to the Adirondack Phantoms. He also was slapped with a four-game suspension from the NHL today. Happy 24th, bud! In reality, Sestito should probably feel lucky. He was only suspended four games…
Ville Leino was a freakin’ deal the last two years. The Flyers resurrected his career, he turned into quite the offensive power in the 2010 playoffs, and then had a decent 2011 season in which we learned that he’s as one-dimensional as one-dimensional players get in the NHL. We knew he was going to get…
Seriously, it’s for real this time. We think. Bob McKenzie, Anthony SanFilippo, Sarah Baicker, Tim Panaccio, and plenty others have said it’s serious. Despite Paul Holmgren saying he won’t break up the core, or saying there was no fire sale, or Carter’s agent saying he has been assured that his client wasn’t going anywhere, well,…
[Recap] – [Game Page] – [New York Reaction] – [Discussion Thread][Box Score] – [Event Summary] – [PBP Log] – [TOI Log] – [Faceoff Report] [Advanced Stats Not Available For Preseason Games] PHILADELPHIA — You know, for a sleepy preseason game, tonight’s contest against the New York Rangers certainly had a ton of stuff going on….
Day two of the 2011 NHL Draft is here, and the Philadelphia Flyers are back in the familiar position of trying to find players who they can trade next year in the middle to late rounds. Who knows, maybe somebody will bring in a Tom Sestito. Or maybe somebody will supplant Garrett Klotz as BSH’s…
Introducing the Maple Street Press Flyers Annual 2011-12, edited by us here at Broad Street Hockey. We’ve put together 112 pages of Flyers content, cover to cover, in the inaugural edition of this magazine, and there’s not a single ad in the entire thing. It’s just $9.99 for the issue, which provides an in-depth look…
Today, Bill Meltzer wrote in his “Musings” post that advanced stats take away from the big picture. Needless to say, he doesn’t understand what he’s arguing against. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong, mind you. People are more than welcome to dismiss the “advanced statistics” in favor of what they see. But if you’re going to…
This has nothing to do with the Flyers, but it’s the slow season and this is pretty damn exciting anyway, because God knows there’s really not anywhere great to buy hockey gear around the Philadelphia area. HockeyGiant.com, which is definitely the best place online to buy hockey gear (in my opinion), is opening one of…
I was in Las Vegas over the weekend, enjoying a beer or 12 with J.P. from SB Nation’s Japers’ Rink, and we were chatting a bit about the annual rookie game between the Flyers and Capitals that’s taken place the last few years at rookie camp. There hadn’t been an announcement, and we were wondering…
Cuts! The first round of cuts were made on Monday from Philadelphia Flyers training camp and, well, no surprises. A bunch of junior-level players, including promising invitee Tomas Hyka, 2011 draft picks Nick Cousins, Derek Mathers Colin Suellentrop and Marcel Noebels, and 2010 pick Brendan Ranford have all been returned to their junior clubs. The…