With the eight-game suspension he earned earlier in the week, Zac Rinaldo has now been suspended 14 games in his NHL career. We alluded to this in the story we wrote about Rinaldo last week, but he’s teetering on the brink of actually being disciplined by this league more than he’s actually played in it….
You’ve probably noticed that R.J. Umberger has been playing better hockey of late. It’s true! The much-criticized Flyers forward has indeed been playing better hockey over the last 45 days to two months or so, and it’s starting to show on the score sheet. Umberger has nine goals on the year, and eight of them…
A short stay and busy week With the Flyers losing Nick Schultz for a game, they recalled Brandon Manning from Lehigh Valley. Manning was recalled earlier this year, totaling 23 minutes of ice time over two games. This time Manning was thrown into the fire against the Penguins, playing 17 minutes in the overtime victory….
You remember what happened last time the Flyers played the Jets, right? Winnipeg is in Philadelphia to take on the Flyers again tonight, and of course, this whole thing was a topic of conversation. Claude Giroux thinks that if the two came to blows, Berube would’ve wound up with the upper hand. Giroux said if…
Yesterday, Ron Hextall mentioned that he anticipated an update coming in the next couple of days regarding Kimmo Timonen’s status and potential availability for the remainder of this season. The people who were there seemed to interpret it as a sign that Timonen — who, of course, has been sidelined with blood clots in his…
In what has been a dismal, frustrating season, things may finally be looking up for the Philadelphia Flyers. An exciting overtime victory over the rival Pittsburgh Penguins allowed the team to enter the all-star break on a positive note, and then they downed a weak Arizona Coyotes squad in their first game back. Tonight was…
Here at Broad Street Hockey, we write a lot of things and give a lot of opinions. When the Flyers make moves, we make guesses on if or how they’re going to end up working out, and always provide good reasons for making those guesses. We aren’t always right — lord knows no one is…
Not long ago, a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs meant an open neutral zone and a barrage of goals for both teams, usually ending in a Flyers victory. Tonight, the style of play may have changed, but the result remained the same. Toronto bottled up the Flyers in the neutral zone and allowed only…
Here’s the big secret about Hart Trophy voting in the NHL: it almost always goes straight down the list of top point scorers in the league. There are variations, of course, but whether it’s because voters are lazy or because the league’s leading scorer often truly is the most valuable player on his team, that’s…
Michael Del Zotto’s recent point streak has garnered the young defenseman a ton of praise from the Philadelphia media. This week alone, half a dozen articles have popped up extolling MDZ’s improved two way play. Sam Carchidi of Philly.com: Michael Del Zotto has gone from odd man out to being one of the Flyers’ most…