As round two of the NHL playoffs continues, those select players that weren’t a part of the tournament, or who have already been eliminated, prepare for the 2019 IIHF World Championships. The tournament serves as an object of criticism for many North American hockey fans, who point to its purpose being unimportant. This is a…
It is looking increasingly evident that Michel Therrien will be the new assistant coach of the Philadelphia Flyers. Yesterday, this tweet emerged from Renaud Lavoie, that fortunately I didn’t have to translate from French: Michel Therrien is back in the NHL. The @NHLFlyers will announce that he will be an assistant coach to Alain Vigneault….
As the general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers, Ron Hextall was very focused on drafting and expanding the team’s prospect pool. Although it wasn’t too exciting, everyone knew that more likely than not Hextall was going to keep the picks he had going into the draft if not find ways to increase that total number…
The Flyers overhauled their coaching staff in a big way on Monday with the additions of Mike Yeo and Michel Therrien, but held on to a piece of the previous staff that should have been shown the door long ago. Somehow —inexplicably— assistant coach Ian Laperriere has survived yet another coaching change in Philadelphia. Alain…
Yesterday it came out that Michel Therrien would be joining the Flyers as an assistant coach, and now today, when it was made official, it was announced that Mike Yeo would also be joining the staff. OFFICIAL: The #Flyers have hired Michel Therrien and Mike Yeo to serve as assistant coaches on head coach Alain…
As we gear up for the start of free agency on July 1, the Flyers have likely already begun to evaluate their current squad and the direction it will want to take it going forward. The Flyers will have to decide both, which unrestricted free agents to retain and what kind of contracts it will…
If the Flyers are expecting to make a step forward, as both fans and the organization wish to do, then they will need exceptional performances from their key players. To this end, the performances of the existing core players that have been with the Flyers for some time now will be of utmost importance. In…
As we head into Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher’s first offseason at the helm of the club, we’ll take a look at just what he could have up his sleeve in order to put his stamp on the roster. Fletcher’s predecessor, Ron Hextall, did leave the Flyers’ new boss a pretty well stocked cupboard full of…
When we were all finally made aware of the full 2019-2020 Flyers coaching staff of Alain Vigneault, Michel Therrien, and Mike Yeo, I gotta say I wasn’t all that thrilled. The Vigneault hiring was something that grew on me in the following days, but the Therrien and Yeo hiring have taken a bit longer. But,…
Last week, I talked about Claude Giroux, looking at his statistical profile and how he grades out in the near future. At the end of the day, I don’t think the results were much of a surprise. We mostly know what we expect of Giroux, and his patterns of point production are fairly evident and…