Zac Rinaldo won’t be in the lineup on Thursday against Buffalo. He won’t be in the lineup on Saturday against Pittsburgh, either. He’s been suspended two games for his charging infraction against Jonathan Ericsson of the Detroit Red Wings Sunday night. The explanation from Shanahan is pretty clear. (Oh, and by the way, if you…
The best on-ice part of All-Star Weekend happens tonight around 7 p.m. when the Skills Competition goes off at Scotiabank Place in some far flung suburb of Ottawa. It’s the same basic format as one year ago. Here’s a list of events: Fastest Skater, Breakaway Challenge, Accuracy Shooting, Skills Challenge Relay, Hardest Shot, and the…
[Event Summary] – [PBP Log] – [TOI Log] – [Faceoff Report][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] Yes, the Flyers 2-1 win over Buffalo helped Washington get closer to making the playoffs (their win clinched their spot), but look on the bright side: we get to watch the Rangers destroy…
5 Will there be over or under 5 more players rumored to be on the block and under consideration from the Flyers front office. We already have Suter / Weber / Schenn / GIll and now Nash. BONUS POINTS for whoever correctly names the next rumor! My shot-in-the-dark, no-reason-to-think-that guess is the guy in the…
The moves have already been made. Nicklas Grossman and Pavel Kubina were added to the blueline well in advance of the 2012 NHL Trade Deadline, and despite plenty of rumors to the contrary, Paul Holmgren stayed quiet on Monday. He didn’t trade for Rick Nash. He didn’t trade James van Riemsdyk. He did absolutely nothing….
Kevin Marshall had his NHL opportunity in the Philadelphia Flyers organization, but in the end, he failed to stick on a depleted blue line, outgunned by Marc-Andre Bourdon and sent back to the Adirondack Phantoms. Paul Holmgren apparently saw enough in the 10 NHL games Marshall played this season to realize he wouldn’t be a…
Here’s a quick look at how the lines matched up in game 1 courtesy of timeonice.com: 5v5 minutes Parise Kovalchuk Henrique Gionta Giroux 4.5 5.9 3.1 3 Briere 1.4 4.8 5.5 2.4 Couturier 8.4 2.7 1.3 1 Schenn 1.2 2.8 2.8 1.3 And here are the head-to-head results (numbers below are the fraction of the…
More late night hockey tonight in Western Canada, as the Flyers are in Calgary to take on the Flames. They’ll try to get the awful taste of Thursday’s loss to Edmonton out of their mouths, but the Flames are a team right on the cusp of the Western Conference playoffs. Things are actually pretty entertaining…
Pulling hair, to my knowledge, wasn’t actually illegal in the NHL when Dave Schultz did it to Dave Rolfe in 1974. It might have been, but I wasn’t born, so I’m allowed to claim ignorance here. Anyway, it is illegal today, and Tom Sestito very obviously did it to Brandon Prust on Sunday at Madison…
On April 5, 2007, Martin Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils beat the Flyers by a score of 3-2. It was Brodeur’s 48th and final win of the season, one more than Bernie Parent’s long-standing record of 47 wins in a year. But we in Philly brushed aside Brodeur’s accomplishment while the rest of the…