Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes… My take on why Ian Laperriere is wrong about Claude Giroux only emerging as himself because of the Richards and Carter trades: [SB Nation Philly] And RedWire’s take on why Ian Laperriere is wrong about Claude Giroux only emerging as…
Sunday was not a banner sports day for the city of Philadelphia as the Flyers failed to backup their impressive onslaught of goals in Buffalo by laying an egg in Winnipeg and the Eagles fell victim to one of the most ridiculous loses in recent memory. These are words and observations from the Flyers’ loss,…
It’s always easy to frame a cheap narrative for the first game back from a break. If the team wins, then clearly the break allowed them to clear their heads and rest their legs. If the result is a loss, the team obviously developed rust in the interim and suffered from a flat start, dooming…
Player GP G ▾ A PTS +/- PIM EV PP SH S S% Scott Hartnell 72 35 29 64 21 130 20 15 0 202 17.3 Claude Giroux 68 26 58 84 5 27 20 6 0 209 12.4 Wayne Simmonds 72 22 20 42 -2 89 13 9 0 171 12.9 Matt Read 69…
The Philadelphia Flyers were back at home for some Saturday afternoon action as they hosted the Calgary Flames at the Wells Fargo Center. Jake Voracek opened the scoring with a diving effort off a shot from Travis Sanheim to give the Orange and Black a 1-0 lead heading into the third period. Calgary would tie…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. It takes an incredibly unlikely series of events for an NHL team to lose a game in which they held a two-goal lead with 1:04 left in the third period. In this one, there were five key plays,…
*So after a break between games that felt like forever, the Flyers came out and crapped all over the ice in back-to-back games this weekend. Friday night’s 4-3 loss to the Blue Jackets was bad, but Saturday night’s loss to Montreal was even worse. *Biggest problem in these two games? The penalty kill. It was…
*That started off so well. New second line clicking, Konecny continuing to dunk on fools…and then…well, then it wasn’t good. Oh this team. RECAP! *Robert Hagg’s consistent and reliable play continues to be one of the main stories of this Flyers’ season. [NHL.com] *Okay so Hagg’s good, how’s everyone else doing? Charlie’s weekly stock report…
It was announced today that the Flyers have signed Nikolai Zherdev to a one-year contract. Unfortunately, no financial terms were released. CSNPhilly’s Sarah Baicker is reporting that it’s a $2 million deal. There isn’t much to say about Zherdev that Travis didn’t already say on Wednesday, but the Flyers are definitely banking on him to…
Chris Pronger is being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame! Sure, he’s technically still on the Arizona Coyotes‘ payroll, but it’s been well over three years since he’s played a game (for the Philadelphia Flyers, no less), so it counts. And because Pronger was, of course, great, he was going into the HHoF no…