Today is Thanksgiving. Hope you all are enjoying your days. Know who definitely is enjoying theirs? Your Philadelphia Flyers, who are coming off of two straight wins and have points in all but two games they’ve played this month. An up-and-down October has given way to a November that has similarly felt rather inconsistent, but…
Steve and Craig are, for lack of better terms, not too excited about the idea of a Sean Couturier-less Philadelphia Flyers taking on the Patric Hornqvist-less Pittsburgh Penguins this evening. They talk about the new lineups, what the projected lineups were before the news of Couturier’s injury, and the Flyers’ discipline this series. Make sure…
Steve Mason wasn’t on the ice during the morning skate at Wells Fargo Center today, and it’s because he’ll be out of tonight’s lineup due to what the team is calling “a personal family matter.” “Flyers goaltender Steve Mason is out of tonight’s line-up due to a personal family matter. No other details are available.”…
(SB Nation) — Future Hall of Famer Jaromir Jagr will play for a Western Conference team for the first time in his career in 2012-13 when he pulls on the uniform of the Dallas Stars. According to TSN’s Pierre LeBrun, Jagr has signed a one-year, $4.5 million contract with the club. Jagr returned to the…
*The Sharks have been bitten (GET IT?!) by the injury bug this series, so there’s a lot of holes to fill. Turns out, though, that you can’t really replace Erik Karlsson once he’s hurt. Game 6 tonight, we’ll see how that goes. [Yahoo Sports] *This is a cool look at what it’s like to be…
Yet another goalie joins the fray! Today, the Flyers announced that Kirill Ustimenko has agreed to his entry level contract. The Russian (Belarusian born) U-18/20 international currently plays in the MHL (Russian Junior League) for Dynamo St. Petersburg where he posted a 0.927 % save percentage in 46 appearances (stats via elite prospects). He helped…
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes… Recaps: [BSH] [Philly Sports Daily] [Inquirer] [Flyers Faithful] [CSNPhilly] [The Checking Line] [delcotimes.com] [Flyers Goal Scored By…] [Bill Meltzer] Ilya Bryzgalov is terrible. He said so himself: [CSNPhilly] [Philly Sports Daily] [In The Room] [Daily News] Which came after a…
Travis Konecny is coming off the best season of his career: he cracked 30 goals for the first time, tied his season high 61 points, and saw more ice time than ever. He became a penalty kill threat, got in a notoriously prickly coach’s good graces, and proved his 2019-20 breakout wasn’t a fluke. Despite…
The Flyers have officially named their new general manager and Chuck Fletcher is the guy. We called on our friends from Hockey Wilderness to get the deets and Tony Abbott joined us to give us some inside information about the man who will, hopefully, move the Flyers forward towards the ultimate prize.
Where we are Week of Nov. 5 – Nov. 11 GP W L Standing in Division 2 1 1 T-3 Well this was certainly an action packed weekend that we just wrapped up. No tight checking slog hockey to be had here, folks, it was all offense all the way. The Phantoms kicked off their…