Two weeks ago, we teased you with a look at our brand new Broad Street Hockey logo. But in doing so, we were admittedly a bit tight-lipped about how this new logo would be implemented into our site. We let on that major changes were indeed coming, but we didn’t share exactly what those changes…
The Flyers announced today that recently-retired Ian Laperriere has been named Director of Player Personnel. In a statement, Paul Holmgren described exactly what Lappy will be doing in the job. “We are pleased to add Ian to our staff as Director of Player Development,” Holmgren said. “Ian will work closely with all of our young…
Flyers sophomore forward Matt Read will be playing in Sweden during the NHL lockout. Read has signed a lockout deal with Södertälje, a club in Sweden’s second-tier league, Allsvenskan. The club announced the deal on Sunday afternoon. Read will join Carl Hagelin of the New York Rangers on the Södertälje roster. Hagelin grew up in…
Click to enlarge. EA Sports released player ratings for every team in the Eastern Conference on Thursday via Yahoo!’s Puck Daddy, and what you see above is a look at the Philadelphia Flyers‘ roster. That’s how they see things breaking up at present, and while a lot of it — most of it? — is…
Throughout the 2011-12 season, we’ve tracked every scoring chance for and against the Philadelphia Flyers. The data is tracked internally by teams around the NHL, including the Flyers, but is not published anywhere for public consumption. Thus, we’ve done the work throughout the year to bring these numbers to you, and now it’s time to…
You may remember that back in May we linked a survey designed to get a deeper look at the perceived opinions of NHL discipline, both on-ice and off-ice. Put another way, we wanted to learn more about NHL fans’ biases and what they perceive the NHL’s biases to be. While the results certainly have selection…
What you see above is just a glimpse of the future of Broad Street Hockey. In the very near future, the SB Nation network will undergo the most exciting and radical transformation in the eight-year history of the company. We’re calling the project SB Nation United, and a new visual identity is only one step…
PITTSBURGH — It looks as though Sergei Bobrovsky has played his last game as a Philadelphia Flyer. TSN’s Darren Dreger reports this noon that Bob looks to be headed to the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for draft picks. The Columbus Dispatch reports that it’s the No. 45 pick this weekend plus a fourth rounder…
Ladislav Scurko was drafted 170th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in 2004. In 2004-05, he scored 43 points in 67 games with the Western Hockey League’s Seattle Thunderbirds. The following season he scored 43 points in 63 games with Seattle. After a trade to the Tri-City Americans in 2006, he scored 10 points in 12…
ATLANTIC CITY – You know, if you didn’t know any better, it’d be hard to tell the NHL ever left. In front of a sellout crowd of over 10,000 at Boardwalk Hall, 32 NHL stars put on the most entertaining hockey show of the year. It was what you’d expect, too: Henrik Lundqvist kicking ass…