Knowing full well that a lot of you will disagree with me – hell, I’m disagreeing with my initial reaction – I ask whether Darroll Powe should be suspended for his hit on Jaroslav Spacek. We can mostly agree that Spacek put himself in such a vulnerable position and is therefore at least partially responsible…
After Latvia shocked the world last night by killing off seven of eight Russian power plays, the Olympic tournament continues on with three games, the last of which is by far the most interesting. Group B Game 6: Russia (1-0-1-0) vs. Czech Republic (2-0-0-0) – 3 PM – MSNBC: Broken and beaten from their respective…
[Boxscore] – [Wire Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [New York Reaction] [Corsi and Fenwick] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [EV Face-Offs] – [Shift Charts] He was a healthy scratch in the Rangers last game, but on Sunday, Sean Avery ran all over the Philadelphia Flyers while leading his team to a 3-1 victory at Madison…
The Flyers have signed Blair Betts to a two-year contract extension worth $1.4 million, CapGeek.com originally reported last night. The deal, worth $700,000 per season, is a one-way deal with a cap hit of that same $700,000 number. It’s a raise from Betts’ current one-year deal that he signed at the end of training camp…
[Boxscore] – [Ottawa Reaction] Final – 1.3.2010 1 2 3 Total Philadelphia Flyers 1 3 0 4 Ottawa Senators 4 0 3 7 Complete Coverage > PART 1: They looked terrible. After Ian Laperriere gave the Philadelphia Flyers a 1-0 lead just two minutes, ten seconds into Sunday afternoon’s contest with the Ottawa Senators, they…
Is it possible, that just three months after the playoffs seemed like an impossibility, that the Flyers could wind up in fifth place in the East? Or fourth? What about third? Or even second? Some of those are very reasonable possibilities. Others, not so much. But the more you look at it, the more it…
Game 1: #1 United States vs. #4 Finland – 3 PM – NBC: Why is neither of these games starting at a normal time? Bizarre. In any event, the Americans, the only group winners left in the tournament, play Finland at 3 PM EST on NBC, a game that should be annoyingly like the Switzerland…
“The playoffs are more physical, so you need to play more physical. You’re trying to grind and wear down the other team, and play hard on their top players and wear on them. You may not get them in Game 1. You may not get them in Game 2. But, hopefully by Game 5 or…
…the fact that the Flyers have FOUR goalies in their 2009-2010 Team Picture, or the fact that Riley Cote feels the need to wear his cup on Photo Day.
The Flyers have signed goaltender Sebastien Caron, as first reported by media in Quebec. The journeyman is a former draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins who had been playing in the top league over in Switzerland. We’ll link you his numbers here, but just know that he wasn’t all that great over there. Swiss hockey…