An interesting tweet popped up on my timeline on Tuesday afternoon: Recent form. pic.twitter.com/7O2p1t8fkT — Micah Blake McCurdy (@IneffectiveMath) March 29, 2016 For those of you unaware, Micah (on Twitter as well as over at his excellent website hockeyviz.com) is one of the best folks out there at taking hockey data and putting into visually…
Over the past ten years, the image of the ideal NHL defenseman has changed dramatically. The days of stay-at-home defensemen like Adam Foote being counted among the league’s best are fading into the rearview mirror of NHL history, as teams have leaned towards quicker players adept at passing the puck to form the core of…
Former Flyers goaltender Ray Emery will be back in the area on Wednesday, joining his old team for their morning skate on a tryout contract. The Flyers announced that news late Tuesday. Free agent goaltender Ray Emery will report to the #Flyers on a try-out basis. Emery will join the team at morning skate Wednesday….
Over the past few months, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been on the warpath, rolling over all comers and establishing themselves as the Eastern Conference’s most dangerous team. Despite the Philadelphia Flyers possessing a strong case to be called the second-most dangerous team in the conference over that span, even they are clearly not on Pittsburgh’s…
The Flyers won a game yesterday that they really needed to have, given how much more difficult the schedule gets in the final five games of the season. Elsewhere around the league, they got a little closer to the first wild card spot and the chance to play one of Florida or Tampa instead of…
As the seconds ticked away on 3-on-3 overtime, it seemed likely that the Philadelphia Flyers would be forced to earn a much-needed victory in the dreaded shootout. Claude Giroux and Shayne Gostisbehere had other ideas. Gostisbehere recovered an errand pass with a diving play in the offensive zone and fed a wide-open Giroux, who slipped…
Earlier today, we began our yearly look at the Flyers’ end-of-season awards by casting our votes for the Barry Ashbee Trophy, which is given to the Flyers’ best defenseman. Now, we’ll shift gears and decide who we think should win the Pelle Lindbergh Memorial Trophy, which is given to the “most improved” player on the…
This morning, in Elliotte Friedman’s always-informative “30 Thoughts” column, the Sportsnet reporter noted that the Philadelphia Flyers were one of the teams in the running to sign Yale goaltender Alex Lyon. 6. One reporter’s guess on the list for Yale free-agent goalie Alex Lyon? Carolina, Chicago, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Philadelphia. Just hours later, Philadelphia apparently…
The Philadelphia Flyers may have played their best all-around hockey of the season in the month of March, but the team’s usually-potent top power play unit was more a passenger than a true driver of the newfound success. If today’s performance is any indication, the PP1 is figuring things out at exactly the right time….
Yesterday we kicked off our series of posts looking at the Flyers’ end-of-year awards, as we decided who should win the Barry Ashbee Trophy (given to the team’s best defenseman) and the Pelle Lindbergh Memorial Trophy (given to the team’s most improved player). Today, we’ll look at the other three awards that are voted on…