Former Moorhead Spud Chris VandeVelde tells me: “I already wanted to go back to Philly, Hakstol being there makes it even more so.” — Dom Izzo (@DomIzzoWDAY) May 18, 2015 Chris VandeVelde was a good bottom-six player for the Philadelphia Flyers last season, but make no mistake: the team’s hopes for the future come nowhere…
Dave Hakstol was named the 19th head coach in Philadelphia Flyers history on Monday morning, and it’s kind of a complete shocker. Nobody really expected Hakstol to leave North Dakota, and his name was never discussed publicly as a possible candidate to lead this team. So … we have some questions about this hiring, about…
I watch a lot of college hockey, but living in the east, it’s hard to watch a lot of teams that play out west. Like North Dakota, for example. Those games just aren’t really on television out here. So while I’ve watched lots of new Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol’s teams in the last few…
New Philadelphia Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol is just the third coach in history to make the direct jump from the NCAA to his first gig in the NHL, and it hasn’t happened at all since the 1970s. Much has been made of this in the 24 hours since Hakstol was introduced as the new…
New Philadelphia Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol met the media on Monday at the Wells Fargo Center, and he talked a lot. He said a lot of stuff about his decision to come to Philly, his time at North Dakota, his life as a coach, etc. But the biggest thing we all want to know…
The definitive profile of new Philadelphia Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol comes from the Grand Forks Herald. It was written in October 2014, and it chronicles Hakstol’s rise from a kid in Alberta, to a player at the University of North Dakota, to an unsuspecting coach in the United States Hockey League, to finally, the…
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Multiple reports indicate that the Toronto Maple Leafs have hired Mike Babcock as their next head coach, successfully luring him away from the Detroit Red Wings after a decade in charge there. All it took was a cool eight-year, $50 million contract, according to reports. That’s by far the largest contract ever awarded to an…
Former Philadelphia City Council member Jim Kenney won the Democratic primary for mayor on Tuesday night, which in this city means he’s likely to win the mayoralty by a landslide in the November election. Kenney is also a very big Flyers fan, judging from his tweets. Some of those tweets are great and show off…
Dave Hakstol approached the economics department about statistics analysis for the hockey team while he was coaching at UND. Fun fact — Nick Lindner (@Lindner9) May 18, 2015 There’s obviously not too much to go off of here, but that’s still good information to have. Lindner, who tweeted that information, is an econ student at…