Danny Briere has been in three fights during his NHL career. One of them was today against Kyle Turris of the Ottawa Senators, who dropped the gloves for just the second time in his career on Saturday afternoon. It was probably the unlikliest of unlikely fights in today’s game, and it was completely awesome. It…
In my humble opinion, confessing to a crime you didn’t commit, especially without any coercion, is a dumb thing to do. That would make Edward Neary, the Northeast Philadelphia man who confessed to beating up Rangers fans on our Facebook page Wednesday, dumb. But again, that’s just a personal opinion. Since Neary dimed himself out…
We’re not exactly fans of calling to attention the awful reputation of the Philadelphia sports fan, mostly because that reputation is, generally speaking, complete bullshit. Every town has their idiots, and we’re no different than New York or Boston or Oakland or anywhere else. We’re not nearly as bad as everybody wants to make us…
For all the excitement that was the win against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night, Saturday’s win against the Calgary Flames was even better. Let’s just talk about this real quick: Down 2-0 in the first five-ish minutes of the game, then down 3-0 by the 12 minute mark of the second period, it didn’t…
We wrote a story yesterday based off a rumor from Elliotte Friedman of CBC, who essentially said that the Flyers were interested in potentially adding a third goaltender should Sergei Bobrovsky or Ilya Bryzgalov fail to “grab a stranglehold” on the position. Obviously, this ticked a fair amount of us off, considering it’s completely silly….
Philadelphia Flyers forward Claude Giroux, also known as Orange Jesus, joined Twitter yesterday at about 5:45 p.m. I was his 700th and 701st follower (approximately) just a few minutes later. When I checked in about 20 minutes later, he was up to 6,000. This morning, as of this writing right this second, he has 47,999…
Scott Hartnell scored five goals in two games over the weekend, and I’m truthfully, honestly not sure how he did that. Not that Hartnell didn’t deserve it or anything — that’s not what I mean at all. It’s that three of those goals were EXACTLY THE SAME, and you’d think the opposition would be able…
7 p.m. tonightWells Fargo CenterTV: CSN Philly, FS TennesseeRADIO: 94WIPTICKETS: Starting at $20, 100 level from $45 That headline is how trade rumors start, and I really don’t care. Ryan Suter and Shea Weber will both be in the house, and they better get used to the surroundings at Wells Fargo Center, because soon enough,…
So we got the chance to screw around on the ice today at Citizens Bank Park today for about 30 to 45 minutes. It was awesome, and while the best way to share the experience with you is to just post a bunch of photos and video. So, here are a bunch of photos and…
Maybe my first reaction to Zac Rinaldo’s hit on Jonathan Ericsson last night was a bit unfair. I called it “embarrassing,” and maybe I fell victim to judging Rinaldo on his reputation more than the actual merits of the hit itself. Reaction in real-time seemed to be about 50-50, with plenty of people believing Rinaldo…