Kimmo Timonen is still going after his Stanley Cup dream with the Chicago Blackhawks this season, but next year, he wants back in Philadelphia. According to the Inquirer, Kimmo plans on coming back to the Flyers next season. Timonen has planned all along to retire from playing after 2014-15, and since he’s been a healthy…
Penn State’s addition to the world of NCAA hockey spawned the Big Ten’s entrance to Division 1 as a hockey conference three years ago. But with just six hockey programs in the B1G — the NCAA minimum for a standalone conference — there’s been a lot of talk about which schools in the conference could…
So I just stumbled over this 2013 Toronto Star story about Connor McDavid, and … well: As a 15 year old, McDavid was granted exceptional-player status by Hockey Canada last year, enabling the Otters to draft him No. 1 overall in April. Only two other players ever have received such permission, John Tavares of the…
Mike Babcock was made the richest coach in NHL history this year when was given that reported eight-year, $50 million contract by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Not only is that an absurdly long contract for any head coach, but at more than $6 million per year it’s millions of dollars more than his closest comparable….
The Philadelphia Flyers released their full 2015 preseason schedule on Wednesday and they’re certainly keeping it local. The Flyers will play just three teams in the preseason this year: the New York Rangers, the New York Islanders and the New Jersey Devils. Gone are mainstays on the preseason schedule like the Toronto Maple Leafs and…
The NHL’s competition committee, which includes Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider, multiple general managers, and multiple player representatives, met this week and delivered several rule change suggestions. The rule changes are merely suggestions to both the NHL’s Board of Governors and the NHLPA’s Executive Board and require further approval before going into effect. As follows,…
The Chicago Blackhawks will host the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night, and yet again, defenseman Kimmo Timonen will sit in the press box as a healthy scratch. He played 16 regular season games with the Blackhawks after being traded there at the trade deadline, and he’s…
We’ve been saying for a while now that, if all goes according to plan, the Philadelphia Flyers are going to have the opportunity to draft a damn good prospect with the No. 7 overall pick in this 2015 NHL draft. So the staff here at Broad Street Hockey was damn excited as SB Nation’s 2015…
Goalie coach Jeff Reese left the Flyers under pretty strange circumstances back in March. Reese never commented on his departure from the organization, but there were reports of a rift between him and head coach Craig Berube involving the handling of starting goaltender Steve Mason — reports that have been vehemently denied by Berube and…
Kimmo Timonen has played in every major hockey tournament that exists, and he’s come close to victory so many times. He finished fifth once and fourth twice with Finland in the 1993, 1994 and 1995 World Junior Championships. He won bronze at the 1998, 2010 and 2014 Olympics. He came within one single goal of…