Minutes after playing it smart and missing out on Senators goaltender Ben Bishop, the Flyers have traded for Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Steve Mason. Yep. The irony here is just laughable: The Flyers sign a goaltender for millions and millions of dollars, displacing a talented young netminder in the process. That talented young guy goes…
Tomas Vokoun was *awful* tonight for the Penguins. He was sloppy, all over the ice, and really could’ve used a chain to keep him near the goal mouth. He wound up below the goal line a lot, he wound up outside the crease while the rest of his team tried to help him out. And…
Small sample sizes give more extreme results than larger samples, where luck evens out a bit, but in a shortened NHL season (or early in any NHL year), it can be fun to highlight impressive results. John Tavares, for example, is on a 56-goal pace, and Steven Stamkos is on a 132-point pace, although even…
After months of anticipation, jersey reveals, mask reveals, and a new helmet reveal, the Flyers Stadium Series game is finally here. Sure, the points awarded for a win are still the same, and it’s basically just another game in the NHL season, but it’s outdoors. Besides, the Flyers are still looking for their first outdoor…
There’s no point to this story other than to laugh at Alex Ovechkin. Over and over and over and over again, on loop forever.
The Daily News has the scoop this morning: Danny Briere has been a subject of trade talks, and the Flyers have discussed him with other teams. But No. 48 has a no-trade clause, and he doesn’t want to go anywhere. [Blues] general manager Doug Armstrong visited Philadelphia for the second time in three home games,…
Less than 24 hours after by far the most-fun win of the year, the Flyers are back home to kick off a five-game homestand against the Florida Panthers. It’s easy to assume there will be a let down tonight against a boring Southeast team that, compared to the Penguins, we couldn’t possibly care less about….
Alright, so now that the initial rush is over and our feelings have (sorta, kinda) subsided, have the Flyers helped themselves be reacquiring Simon Gagne from the Los Angeles Kings? There are a few different schools of thought here. Argument 1: It doesn’t matter. You could easily make the argument that the Flyers aren’t winning…
Last week, I went to Boston to present a poster on zone entries at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Here’s a link to that if you’re interested, and here are some odds and ends from the experience — or, what I’m calling Trollfest 2013. When I arranged to meet up with Ryan Lambert, I had…