With the regular season coming to a close in the next week or so, the playoff races in the Eastern Conference are hotter than they’ve been all season. There’s a giant cluster of teams now fighting for the 4th seed and home ice advantage, but even more desperate are the teams fighting for the right…
Grade: B 08/09 Salary: $8 mil 09/10 Salary: $8 mil 09/10 Cap Hit: $6.5 mil Linemates: 22.1% Arron Asham and Claude Giroux Depth Chart Ranking: #2 Right Wing [ Broad Street Hockey Player Page ] [ Hockey Reference Player Page ] GP G A P +/- PIM TOI/G PP/G FO% BkS GvA TkA 08/09 Regular…
Bob Ford, a respectable Inquirer columnist, talks about Marty Biron keeping up his recent play. There’s also some interesting talk at the end of the article, including a quote from Marty, about the Continental plane crash in Buffalo last week. Biron played in Buffalo for 11 seasons, and his wife has relatives that live in…
photo via espn.com If all goes according to plan, the Flyers will welcome Danny Briere back into the fold tonight. His return, if he is indeed finally healthy, is a huge boost for the team. Look at it this way: the Flyers, a second place team, are adding a thirty goal scorer to a lineup…
Some raw quotes from Paul Holmgren’s meeting with the media here in Montreal… “Joffrey Lupul is a good player and Luca Sbisa is going to be a good player, but we’re trying to win here. And we think Chris is a guy who can help us to achieving our goal.” “Over the last few years,…
Editor’s Note: I apologize for this not being up much earlier. My internet has been pretty Comcastic all day and night today.In the first installment of our postseason preview, we’re taking a look at the most likely first round playoff opponent for the Flyers. That team is the Carolina Hurricanes, and if the playoffs started…
Broad Street Hockey has arrived at the NHL Draft in Montreal and is ready for the real fun to start tomorrow afternoon. We’ll be reporting from the Bell Centre beginning in the mid-afternoon, but before that, Thursday night was an eventful night around town. Frank at Pensburgh has a pretty detailed account of our evening,…
Sure, he’s no Victor Hedman, but he is a Swedish defenseman. The Flyers have selected Simon Bertilsson with the 87th overall selection. He was ranked at 71st by the International Scouting Service. According to Hockey’s Future, Bertilsson might have received more attention from other teams if he were drafted in a year without so many…
Ossi Vaananen and Glen Metropolit were both picked up off of waivers this morning and are no longer members of the Flyers. Metropolit won’t have to go far, as his new team will meet him at the Wachovia Center tonight when the Flyers face the Montreal Canadiens. Vaananen is now a member of the Vancouver…
About an hour ago, SB Nation CEO Jim Bankoff announced a deal with Yahoo! Sports in which SBN community sites will now be featured in relevant areas of the Yahoo! site. It’s a big step for both Broad Street Hockey and the entire SBN family of sports blogs. For the details on this new partnership,…