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Sure, the Olympics are really early in the morning, but it’s still AMERICA and HOCKEY, so it’s worth getting up for. And why should we sit at home and watch by ourselves, when we can join a bunch of friends, get free drinks, and watch AMERICA play HOCKEY on a huge projection screen? More info:…

This one was an eye-opener. Over the past few weeks, the Philadelphia Flyers have been able to motivate themselves with the dream that a playoff berth was still attainable, despite facing overwhelming odds and a pretty massive deficit in the standings. And it’s not like you can fault the players – they obviously want to…

It’s All-Star weekend and half the league is on a bye week, so in the wake of the PHWA revealing their mid-season awards, the gang revisited their preseason predictions to see how well everyone did predicting the future. If you haven’t yet, head on over to our iTunes page and leave us a review. Preferably…

This was initially waived off by the referee, but after they conferred and went to the review, it was pretty clearly a goal. The puck crossed the line and there’s no way that Brayden Schenn forcefully pushed Jonathan Quick and the puck across the blueline. That was merely Quick’s momentum that carried them over the…

_laude _laude is bad, cannot lead, Lacking courage, heart, and speed. Looks confused while on the ice, With passing far too imprecise. _laude is bad, never good, Never scoring, as he should. When he laces up his skates, He only hurts his line mates. _laude is bad, always lost, From the lineup, should be tossed….

The Philadelphia Flyers faced the Pittsburgh Penguins Monday night in another battle of Pennsylvania. It was the prequel for their Outdoor Classic Game in a couple of weeks and the red-hot Flyers were looking to pounce. The game was all Penguins. Pittsburgh got out to an early lead and were saved by a stellar performance…

The Philadelphia Flyers traded up to 24th overall to select Travis Konecny. Armed with an extra first round pick from the Braydon Coburn trade, they were able to package it with an extra second from the Kimmo Timonen trade, and turned the two into Konecny. Konecny who, in what is likely his final junior season,…

Jordan Eberle is really, really good. He’s 23 years old, the 22nd overall pick of the Edmonton Oilers in the 2008 NHL Draft. He’s scored 71 goals and added 98 assists in 212 NHL games so far in his young career. He is a forward with a cap hit of $6 million per year until…

Sometimes, sports teams make bad decisions that just so happen to work out. Other times, teams make bad decisions that don’t work out. But other times still, a team makes a decision for what appears to be the right reasons, only to have something unforeseen happen that ultimately makes said decision look much worse, opening…