Over at SBNation.com, Adam Gretz has been publishing an awesome series he calls Lost Franchises, which looks back at some gone-but-not-forgotten NHL clubs of years past. He’s profiled the Quebec Nordiques and Seattle Metropolitans, as well as the Pittsburgh Pirates, a club that moved to Philadelphia in 1930 and played just one season here before…
Ron Hextall and Steve Coates sat down for a little one-on-one chat last week, and the Flyers general manager opened up on a range of different topics. We’ll touch on some of the other topics later, but his comments about the team’s defensive unit were the most interesting, so let’s get right to that. ‘We’re…
I don’t know why he sounds like the Moviefone guy, but Bernie Parent’s Ice Bucket Challenge is pretty solid. You’re up, Ed Snider, Jeff Lurie and Dave Montgomery.
The Flyers play a neutral site preseason home game every year. It’s almost always against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and it’s always at Budweiser Gardens in London, Ont. This has been happening for years now, and the reasons why are obvious: Comcast-Spectacor subsidiary Global Spectrum operates the arena, which is the regular home of the…
BSH: First off, any update on Kimmo Timonen? Ron Hextall: We don’t. He’s supposed to come into town today [Tuesday, August 26], though, so we’ll have something in the next little while here. He’s gonna see our doctors and once we get through that we’ll have something. As far as I know, Kimmo’s doing well….
This apparently happened back in July, but we learned today that the Flyers have hired Ian Anderson as a Manager of Hockey Analytics. They’re going full-on nerd. Anderson has worked for the Washington Capitals since 2005, but from the limited knowledge we have about him via his Internet paper trail, it seems as though those…
Chris Therien has served the last six seasons in the Flyers radio booth alongside play-by-play broadcaster Tim Saunders. In 2014-15, he’ll make the transition to television. The former Flyers defenseman, who played more games as a defenseman in orange and black than any other player ever, will join the Comcast SportsNet broadcast team this coming…
BSH: Turning to the forwards. The one big trade this offseason, Umberger for Hartnell. Where do you see Umberger fitting in on this team? In your mind is it a one-for-one swap with Hartnell meaning you see him on the top line or does he fall elsewhere on the depth chart and in the lineup?…
Earlier this season, the Philadelphia Flyers finished a critical road trip with a 5-2 win in Arizona over the Coyotes on November 5th. Oskar Lindblom iced that game with an empty-net tally for his fourth goal of the season. The Swedish forward endured a 30-game goal drought before he tallied his fifth goal of 2018-19…