The NHL is dumb, so they announced a bunch of league award winners at 5 p.m. on Friday. Or maybe they’re smart and they realize nobody really cares anyway. Whatever. No Flyers won any of the league awards, as you’d expect. They weren’t even close to being in the running for any of the eight…
A good chunk of the people reading this sentence right now will be dead by the time Ilya Bryzgalov comes off the Flyers’ books in 2027. Provided he doesn’t live until age 95, Flyers chairman Ed Snider — the guy who made sure the Flyers solved their goalie problems with Bryzgalov — will be among…
Make that two buyouts. The Flyers announced today that they’ll willingly pay Ilya Bryzgalov $1.6 million per season until 2027 to play for another team. They have bought him out of the remainder of his contract, and he’ll be an unrestricted free agent on July 5. Holmgren has now used both compliance buyouts available to…
THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Tim Thomas is apparently ready to leave the bunker and resume his NHL career. The former Vezina winner, Conn Smythe winner and Stanley Cup champion is expected to announce soon his desire to play the NHL again after one season off to focus…
NEWARK — In one fell swoop on Sunday afternoon, the Philadelphia Flyers‘ chances of improving their goaltending situation took a huge hit. The Vancouver Canucks shockingly traded Cory Schneider — the cheaper, younger, arguably just-as-good-with-more-upside version of Roberto Luongo — to the New Jersey Devils for the No. 9 pick in the 2013 Draft. With…
So we’re officially back on the goalie market. Fun times. Travis went through basically all of the possibilities of who will have the honor of playing alongside Steve Mason in the Flyers’ net next season on Tuesday. There have already been a few possibilities thrown out there by different writers, and we’ll probably see more…
The snap reaction yesterday to the 2013 NHL Draft for the Flyers — at least according to our site’s comments and among fans and other writers on Twitter — was less than glowing. Generally speaking, there was been skepticism about the team’s first-round pick of Samuel Morin, universal disapproval of the third-round choice of Tyrell…
There’s something about being a dad that can make even a Penguin likable. Father’s Day is pretty special. I’ve probably written something similar here on previous Father’s Days, but I think it bears repeating: For most of us, our dads are the reason we are who we are, and in my case, that means sitting…
According to TSN’s Darren Dreger, Braydon Coburn is on the trade block. That’s crazy. What’s the chief concern for the Flyers this summer? If your answer is “improving the defense,” congratulations! You watched a Flyers game last season! What position does Braydon Coburn play? Defense! Let’s think about this. The Flyers have eight defensemen on…
EDIT, 6/17, 9:02 p.m. ET: Paul Holmgren and the Flyers released a statement this evening about the state of the negotiations: “We continue to have talks with Mark’s agent. Although there is nothing to report, we remain confident that we will get something done.” As we noted below, the reported deal of $5.25 million per…