* Steve Coates has a chat with prospect Danick Martel: [Flyers.com] * And another one with Cole Bardreau: [Flyers.com] * Meanwhile, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare got his cat a birthday cake. Gotta love the offseason, folks: [BSH] * Some more thoughts on how Ron Hextall and the Flyers may handle their top prospects coming into this season:…
Entering tonight’s game, a win by the New York Islanders would have pulled them into a matchup with Pittsburgh in the first round, whereas a loss would have meant a matchup with Florida. They weren’t exactly thirsty for a win, and they sat John Tavares, Frans Nielsen, Kyle Okposo and Johnny Boychuk as a result….
Jared Boll of the Columbus Blue Jackets has been suspended four games for hit late hit on the Flyers’ Pierre-Edouard Bellemare on Tuesday night. Boll will forfeit $82,926.84 in salary with the suspension and is considered a repeat offender by the league’s Department of Player Safety. The suspension is in addition to to the five…
It’s a little depressing to think about how the end of the 2015-16 Philadelphia Flyers season may have played out of Michael Del Zotto didn’t injure his wrist in February. Until that point, MDZ had been arguably the Flyers’ most important defenseman, playing significant minutes with Shayne Gostisbehere on the team’s de facto top pairing….
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Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Flyers flipped their shot volume/quality script Yesterday, I wrote an article breaking down the Flyers’ tendency so far this season to win the shot volume battle at 5v5 but lose in overall shot quality. Their score-adjusted Corsi…
The 2016 NCAA men’s hockey tournament kicks off on Friday with the four games — two each in the Midwest and Northeast Regionals. The tournament will continue on Saturday with the Regional Finals in each of those two regions, as well as the Regional Semifinals in the East and West Regions. Quinnipiac University is the…
After an injury and suspension-ravaged training camp, the Philadelphia Flyers were able to avoid any major issues during their season-opening back-to-back this past weekend. Unfortunately, they could not make it through Game #3 unscathed. Forward Michael Raffl, who has primarily played on the top line with Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds in the absence of…
The Flyers are on an incredible run towards the postseason right now, but one personality who hasn’t been around the Wells Fargo Center much this season is chairman Ed Snider. The man responsible for bringing the NHL to Philadelphia 50 years ago has spent much of the season at his home in California, dealing with…
Team Europe has turned into the plucky little underdogs that, it turns out, could. Maybe not against Canada – at least not so far, as they’re in a do-or-die situation tomorrow for the best of three finals – but against everyone else, they got it. Case in point: their sudden death semifinal win over Team…