Last week, Tyrell Goulbourne took a slap shot and broke a pane of glass. In the mundane week full of dull drills and nameless players that is summer development camp, that shattering shot made Goulbourne, a 2013 third round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers, stand out of the crowd. Like clockwork, the stories about to…
It wasn’t too long ago when we lived in a world where the Philadelphia Flyers were absent from an “top prospects” lists, or were at best scantly represented. That’s changing rapidly of late, and it’s reflected in NHL.com’s list of the league’s top 60 prospects, released Thursday. The list is led by Lightning forward Jonathan…
I’m really excited about this new format for the NHL All-Star Game, which TSN Bob McKenzie reported on Tuesday night. THREE-ON-THREE TOURNAMENT, BABY. It’s going to be a divisional format, with four three-on-three teams — one from each NHL division — consisting of 9-10 players and 2 goalies. The Eastern teams will play head-to-head, and…
The Flyers have signed Vincent Lecavalier, because of course they have.
After going down with what might be a back injury during practice Friday morning, the Flyers announced that Steve Mason will miss this weekend’s games in Toronto and Winnipeg and that they will have more information on his status Monday. Until then, it certainly looks like Ray Emery will be the starting goaltender against the…
272 — the total number of NHL games played between the six defensemen who will take the ice for the Flyers tonight in St. Louis, assuming that Will O’Neill does in fact play in Radko Gudas’ place. If you’ve somehow managed to forget, here are those defensemen, along with the number of games they’ve played…
*The Flyers remain strong and true in their quest to acquire every marginal NHL goaltender and we now welcome Mike McKenna to the party! [BSH] *Anyhoo they lost again this weekend, this time to the Flames, again in overtime. Here’s what we learned. [BSH] *Possible future Flyer Kaapo Kakko scored late to give the Finnish…
7:30 p.m., Prudential CenterNewark, New JerseyGame 4, Eastern SemifinalsDevils lead, 2-1TV: NBC Sports Network, CBCRADIO: 610 WIPNJD BLOG: In Lou We Trust We’ve already been over how tonight’s Game 4 vs. the Devils is a must-win game for the Flyers, so we won’t recount that, but there are reasons to be optimistic heading into the…
On this week’s edition of Broad Street Hockey Radio, we speak to Mike Boone, the columnist from the Montreal Gazette who compared the Flyers to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Mr. Boone gave us his justification for making the comments, which were considered outlandish by some and downright offensive by others. He also responded to a…
Many people would consider the Swedish Elite League — or, wait, it’s called just the “Swedish Hockey League” now — the second-best hockey league in the world. Better than the KHL. Better than the AHL. Smart people can disagree, but the point is that it’s a really good league. And Flyers prospect Oskar Lindblom was…