A few weeks ago, there was some debate in the comments about to what extent we could call Danny Briere a clutch playoff performer. One of the arguments raised was that you’re going against tougher competition in the playoffs, so you might expect scoring to drop, and that merely maintaining his regular season numbers would…
Ed Note: Updated for reality, bumped for relevance. Flyers are in the second round, bitches. As a team in the No. 4 vs. No. 5 match-up, the Flyers are in the unique position of being able to play any of the other six remaining East teams in the second round. No other match-up allows for…
Evgeni Malkin won’t be suspended for this hit on Sean Couturier, but if his name were … oh, I don’t know, not Evgeni Malkin, he’d have racked up enough infractions in the five Eastern Conference Quaterfinal games between the Flyers and Penguins to at least warrant some kind of supplementary discipline. His hit that knocked…
3 p.m., Wells Fargo CenterSouth PhiladelphiaGame 1, Eastern SemifinalsSeries tied, 0-0TV: NBC, NBCSports.com, CBCRADIO: 94 WIPNJD BLOG: In Lou We Trust Finally, the second round is here. It seemed like it took a year, but the Philadelphia Flyers will play hockey this afternoon against the New Jersey Devils. Will the long layoff help? It’s always…
The Winnipeg Jets can SWEEP THE SEASON SERIES with a win tonight against the Flyers at MTS Centre. That is just… absurd. We all remember the first game back in October, the crazy 9-8 loss at the WFC. Then, in the second meeting, the Jets jumped out to a huge lead before the Flyers clawed…
[Complete Coverage] – [New York Reaction] – [Discussion Thread][Event Summary] – [PBP Log] – [TOI Log] – [Faceoff Report][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Shot Differential] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] Once we reached about five minutes into a scoreless third period at Wells Fargo Center tonight, you just knew it was going to be one of…
It didn’t look like Tom Sestito lost his fight with Zack Kassian on Thursday night against the Buffalo Sabres. He dominated off the bat and then Kassian came back a bit and maybe evened things out toward the end, but it’s not as if anything beyond an awkward fall at the end made it look…
Evgeni Malkin won’t be suspended for this hit on Sean Couturier, but if his name were … oh, I don’t know, not Evgeni Malkin, he’d have racked up enough infractions in the five Eastern Conference Quaterfinal games between the Flyers and Penguins to at least warrant some kind of supplementary discipline. His hit that knocked…
[Complete Coverage] – [New York Reaction] – [Discussion Thread][Event Summary] – [PBP Log] – [TOI Log] – [Faceoff Report][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Shot Differential] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] Here’s the worst part about the Flyers fifth loss of the season to the New York Rangers: it was probably the best of all five games…
Ilya Bryzgalov is a game-time decision for Game 5 on Friday night with a hip injury, according to WIP’s Howard Eskin. In addition to the Bryz news, Eskin reports that Nicklas Grossmann will likely miss Game 5 and that James van Riemsdyk is likely to return to the lineup Friday. Eskin may not know a…