For just the second time ever, the NHL Draft Lottery is of importance to us in Philadelphia. It didn’t really go well for us last time, but let’s hope the hockey Gods remember and pay us back this time around. The lottery will be held at 8 p.m. on Monday night from TSN’s studios in…
Mercifully, it is over. The 2013 Flyers are now a thing of the past. The orange and black went out on a high note tonight, knocking the Ottawa Senators hopes of playing the not-Penguins in the first round down a peg with a 2-1 win in the season finale. Jason Akeson scored his first NHL…
There’s no question that the Philadelphia Flyers and the media that cover them have a tenuous relationship. That’s partly true in every city with a media corps that does it’s job, but more often than not in this town, it blows up to the point where it’s a story. (And more often than not, it’s…
Jakub Voracek, Ilya Bryzgalov and Oliver Lauridsen will also be heading to next week’s World Championships in Europe. CSN Philly reports that Voracek will play for the Czech Republic and Lauridsen will play for Denmark in the tournament which begins May 3 in Stockholm and Helsinki, and Sport Express in Russia reports that Bryzgalov will…
Last summer, I took a crack at trying to standardize and evaluate goalie performance using something I called SV+, or Adjusted Save Percentage. Modeled after stats like ERA+ and OPS+ in baseball, it’s expressed in such a way that anything above 100 means a goalie is posting an above-average save percentage and anything below 100…
There’s a lot to say about the Flyers‘ defense, both about the guys there now and the guys who may be there in the future. But of the guys in the former group, not one of them generated as much discussion around his play this year as newcomer Luke Schenn did. Schenn — who went…
The Flyers had a 1.5 percent chance at winning the 2013 NHL Draft Lottery. Hey, shocker! The Flyers did not win the 2013 NHL Draft Lottery. Instead, the Colorado Avalanche won that draw, passing the Florida Panthers, who had the highest chances at winning the lottery due to their last place finish this season. Colorado…
There are many things you might say about Flyers goaltending. And yet out of all of the possible narratives, an odd one keeps recurring: a rush to praise Jeff Reese. Since Reese came to the team, the Flyers goaltenders have had a below-average .909 save percentage. They had one great playoff run and two playoff…
The NHL Draft Lottery is tonight at 8 p.m. ET. It’ll be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network in the United States and TSN in Canada. The Flyers have just a 1.5 percent chance at winning the No. 1 overall pick in the 2013 draft. Here’s out full primer on the event. Feel free to…
Day 2 of the playoffs is upon us, and the Eastern Conference finally gets going with two series of its own. Hang out with us here and talk about them. Tonight’s games: Leafs @ Bruins, 7:00 ET, CNBCGoalies: James Reimer vs. Tuukka RaskFun Fact: The Leafs are playing in their first playoff game since 2004,…