As the playoffs are just around the corner, Kimmo Timonen takes a quick look back at the season so far and previews the first round playoff series versus the Penguins. “The regular season is over and the best part is ahead”, Timonen says. “If I think about last summer and how big changes this team…
Oh, you mean the playoffs haven’t started yet? The Flyers overcame a two-goal first-period deficit and beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-4 today. They’re now a point back of the Pens with a week to go in the regular season, and with one more game in The House That Sergei Bobrovsky Built, home ice edge in…
7 p.m., Air Canada CentreToronto, Ont., CanadaTV: CSN Philly, TSNRADIO: 94 WIPLEAFS BLOG: Pension Plan Puppets This is where we typically write about the upcoming game, looking at matchups or storylines or injuries or whatever. But that just seems sort of silly today. Alright, not completely silly. Let’s get this stuff out of the way…
There’s a Game 7 tonight, and that’s awesome because it doesn’t involve the Philadelphia Flyers. No heart attacks for us! Hooray! But tonight’s Game 7 between the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins does involve us. Should the Capitals win, it’ll end the Flyers’ chances of playing either the New York Rangers or Boston Bruins in…
Jaromir Jagr has a blog on the Internet. It’s pretty neat. He writes it in his native tongue and it’s translated to English, so the phrasing can be a bit funny sometimes. But as we’ve come to learn with translations, he’s not delivering this to a North American audience, so perhaps he lets his guard…
A lot of people have been suggesting that the Flyers should trade up into the first 10 picks of this year’s draft to get one of the top defensive prospects. However, I think people are overestimating how likely that is and underestimating the cost. Let’s take a look at the draft pick trades since the…
The Flyers could learn a thing or two about how to start games from the Penguins. The Pens got chances early and converted them into goals by Crosby and Kennedy, while the Flyers only really started to match them in chances from the ten minute mark. From there both teams generated four chances each, but…
Ilya Bryzgalov won’t play on Thursday night for the Philadelphia Flyers thanks to a chip fracture in his right foot, but the organization does not believe the injury to be all that serious. “Ilya wasn’t going to play on Thursday anyway, general manger Paul Holmgren said Tuesday afternoon. “We’re going to just leave him back…
The New Jersey Devils will be without Ilya Kovalchuk tonight. He’s suffering what’s believed to be a lower-back injury, and it’s not necessarily all that surprising. Kovalchuk looked really, really bad in Game 1, registering zero shots on goal (rare for him) and playing just 21:20 in total ice time, three minutes under his season…
The NHL announced the schedule for next season earlier today, and we learned that the Philadelphia Flyers season will, CBA pending, open on October 11 with a home game against the Boston Bruins. But that’s not the only highlight of the schedule. Let’s take a look at some of the other key dates across the…