Scott Hartnell’s contract certainly wasn’t the best one the Flyers had, and at times Hartnell did feel a little out of the mix on Craig Berube’s team. He shuffled between lines a little bit and seemed to hold Jakub Voracek and Claude Giroux back a touch, but he was still legitimately a top-6 player on…
#5 Philadelphia Flyers (27-15-9, 63 pts) at #14 Atlanta Thrashers (18-30-5, 84 pts) Philips Arena – 3:00 PM EST – Atlanta, GA TV: CSN HD, SportSouth HD Radio: 610 WIP, XM 206This is the open game thread.ATDHE.net Live Video Stream Behind Enemy Lines: Bird Watchers Anonymous, an SBN blog What To Watch For: Apparently, the…
People put lists out to cause a discussion, so let’s do just that. Let’s discuss! This morning Yesterday Sportsnet posted the first of their four-part series titled “Top 100 NHL Players of 2018-19” with their first fifty rankings, numbers 51-100. Two Flyers were included, Ivan Provorov and Shayne Gostisbehere, so let’s go over their placements….
A couple of weeks ago, we took a deep dive on the Flyers’ salary cap situation as they headed into this offseason, and then we checked back in on it a few days later when the NHL officially confirmed a $75 million salary cap for the 2017-18 season. 12 days later, we’ve been given an…
What’s your level of panic? After an incredible run from December 4th through February 26th, the Flyers came in to March like a lion, but have started the month like a lamb, winless through their first three games of 2018’s third month. Also this week, we dissect the town hall meeting, do our usual complaining…
*You guys watch the rookie game? What’d you think? *In that vein, Charlie’s got a full rundown of how the kids have looked over the first couple of days on the ice. [The Athletic] *Morgan Frost and Carter Hart know that making the team out of camp may be a long shot for them, but…
Martin Brodeur has made a lot of history against the Flyers in the last decade-plus of his career, most notably when he broke Bernie Parent’s record for wins in a season back in 2007 (which was obviously helped by the shootout and whatnot, meaning Bernie’s still better, but I digress). Tonight, he’ll make a much…
via cache.daylife.com Paul Holmgren speaks to Craig Custance of Sporting News Today. Here are the highlights. A hat tip to Kukla. On the goalie controversy: I think we have a good goaltending tandem. Marty Biron, if you look at the goalies around the league, is he upper-echelon? Probably not. There are very few guys in…
Steve Mason deserves the starting gig on Team Canada at this spring’s World Hockey Championships. I mean, look at the list of Canadian goalies who have played more than 20 games in the NHL this season. Rk Player Team GP GS W L T/O GA SA SV SV% ▾ GAA SO MIN 1 Carey Price…
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news… Lots of news yesterday in case you missed it: The Flyers signed Medicine Hat defenseman Matthew Konan: [BSH] Danny Briere and Nicklas Grossmann are both out with injuries: [BSH] Wayne Simmonds was named the NHL’s First Star of the Week: [The Checking…