We’re teaming up with Anthony SanFilippo of the Delaware County Times to bring you a new weekly feature. Tentatively, we’ll simply call it ‘Ask The Flyers.’ It’s a pretty basic idea: you ask a few questions below in our comments, we send them to Anthony and he asks the players exactly what’s on your mind…
Lukáš Krajíček says he wanted to stay in Philadelphia and it was close to happen. “I wanted to stay. It was my first priority. I wanted to settle somewhere more permanently. We had agreed on the terms, but at this point we have nine defensemen in Philadelphia, so there was no commitment in the end.”…
July 1 is typically one of the most exciting days of the year for hockey fans, and it usually doesn’t disappoint in our neck of the woods, considering the Flyers are a perennially active team in the free agent market. But in the run up to what many call the Christmas of the sport, we…
Another show, another discussion about goalies. Maybe it’ll end someday. Sigh. We welcome Jason Plank and Matt Taylor from Fear The Fin onto the show this week to discuss everything Evgeni Nabokov. The big question, is he a playoff dud? After the Nabokov talk, we discuss the Flyers other goaltending hopes, as well as what…
Penalties defined Friday night’s final home preseason contest between the Flyers and the Sabres. The Flyers scored two power play goals en route to a 3-1 victory, while also taking seven minor penalties in the process. At the same time, Buffalo took eight minors of their own. The penalty kill was generally fantastic, though, and…
There was a story today in the Philadelphia Inquirer that explained how Sergei Bobrovsky is the number two goaltender on the Flyers depth chart. This implies, of course, that Bob has made the Flyers and will be travelling to Pittsburgh next week to watch Brian Boucher take on the Penguins in the season opener. Here’s…
According to Bob McKenzie on Twitter, the Flyers have acquired Andrej Meszaros from the Tampa Bay Lightning for a second round pick in 2012. Meszaros, 24, is under contract until 2013-2014. He has a cap hit of $4 million a season, with the salary ramping up at the back end of the contract. Meszaros is…
Anthony SanFilippo has a great blog post up on the Flyers plans come tomorrow, which he obtained via an exec in the organization. Go read that, and come back here where we’ll break it down: – Goaltending: The Flyers are going to buy out, waive or trade Brian Boucher now that Michael Leighton has re-signed….
Two late seventh rounders wrap up the draft for the Philadelphia Flyers. With the 206th pick, acquired a few minutes ago from Carolina for Jonathan Matsumoto, the Flyers have selected Ricard Blidstrand, a defenseman from Sweden. His profile on Eliteprospects.com: A big and strong defenseman. Plays determined and is pretty physical in his own end….
Penalties defined Friday night’s final home preseason contest between the Flyers and the Sabres. The Flyers scored two power play goals en route to a 3-1 victory, while also taking seven minor penalties in the process. At the same time, Buffalo took eight minors of their own. The penalty kill was generally fantastic, though, and…