This is a little weird, but interesting, via ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun: … for coaches, general managers or presidents of hockey operations who are fired but remain under contract, their teams are privy to draft pick compensation if they choose to pursue it. … Let’s take fired Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli as an example….
The Flyers are reportedly interested in making San Jose Sharks head coach Todd McLellan their head coach … and well, OK … let’s call him “former” San Jose Sharks coach Todd McLellan now. The San Jose Sharks and Todd McLellan have mutually agreed to part ways. In related moves, Assistant Coaches Jim Johnson and Jay…
The 2015 IIHF World Championships kick off on Friday, May 1 in the Czech Republic. The annual tournament, now in its 79th year, carries extra importance this year as it will help finalize seeding for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. 2018 Olympic qualification is determined by a nation’s…
Hal Gill, the big defenseman who played 16 years in the NHL, retired Thursday. Gill, now 40 years old, didn’t play this past year after his one-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers expired last summer. In 2013-14 with the Flyers, Gill played just six games. A great guy who the game passed by the last…
We still don’t officially know why or how former NHLer Steve Montador died back in February, but this video from former Flyer Dan Carcillo, via the Players’ Tribune, gives some insight from a close friend into who Montador was as a person and into problems that plagued him late in life. “Monty went through some…
Former Philadelphia Flyers head coach Craig Berube sat down for his first interview since being fired by the team earlier this month. Below, see the transcript between Berube and 94WIP morning show host Angelo Cataldi. Cataldi: Prior to the decision by Ron Hextall to remove you as coach, you had expressed some confidence that you…
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Throughout the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs, we’ll go round-by-round and predict the outcomes of each playoff series. We’re on to the second round, with the BSH staff predicting who we think will win each of the four series that just happened to be finalized last night. BSH’s second round panel Travis Hughes, lost his fandom…
The Flyers made some very minor news this Friday afternoon when they announced the signing of 22-year old Swiss defenseman Christian Marti. Marti spent the past two seasons in Switzerland’s National League A, and has one year of hockey in North America when he played for the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada in the QMJHL in 2012-13. His…