Happy New Year, Flyers fans! Everyone have a fun night? Stayed warm, hopefully? Enjoyed a little champs? Stayed home alone and felt sad? Well, as you nurse your hangover and enjoy a nice greasy breakfast, here are a few questions posed by our fantastic readers that we wanted to answer for you as we kick…
Jared Boll of the Columbus Blue Jackets has been suspended four games for hit late hit on the Flyers’ Pierre-Edouard Bellemare on Tuesday night. Boll will forfeit $82,926.84 in salary with the suspension and is considered a repeat offender by the league’s Department of Player Safety. The suspension is in addition to to the five…
It’s a quick turnaround for the Flyers today after last night’s frustrating loss to the Penguins. They’re down in Carolina taking on another Metropolitan Division foe, the Hurricanes. It’s a 5 p.m. start, and it’ll be shown on The Comcast Network locally. We don’t known if there will be lineup changes since there was no…
If you could pinpoint one major problem with the Calgary Flames this season, it would be their offense. Ranked just 22nd in the NHL in goals per game, the Flames aren’t a team that was built around offense. With goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff and what was thought to be a world-class defense in front of him,…
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet is one of the most plugged-in folks in hockey, and he’s made some predictions for the goaltending market once it opens at 12 p.m. ET on Saturday afternoon. Among those predictions, Friedman says he believes that Brian Elliott — most recently of the Calgary Flames — will be coming to Philadelphia….
Yes folks, it finally happened, Wayne Simmonds is no longer a Philadelphia Flyer. This will be the first game the Flyers play without Simmonds, and it comes against a team they are battling with for a playoff spot. Buffalo sits one point ahead of Philadelphia, and six points out of the final wild card spot…
Another forward. At 149, the Flyers select Michael Parks from the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders of the USHL. Parks has committed to play at the University of North Dakota next season. McKeen’s Hockey interviewed him recently. Here’s an excerpt: McKeen’s: Back in November you were playing with Team USA at the World Junior A Challenge, and…
[Box Score] – [Wire Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [New York Reaction] [Corsi and Fenwick] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [EV Faceoffs] – [Shift Charts] What is there to say? There were bright spots, there were weak spots. There were hits, there were misses. There was discipline, there was restraint. There was Mike Richards’ leading…
Steve and Craig talk about trading for Kevin Hayes’ signing rights, other possible additions via trade or free agency, and about the Kelly Cup controversy. Steve also attempts to win another possible game and the two analyze The Bachelorette with another Bach Update. Make sure to follow us on twitter @Flyperbole and @Sports_Are_Bad. Also follow…
The Flyers had a bunch of roster holes a season ago, but first line center certainly wasn’t one of them. That’d be the spot that Sean Couturier has held down for the past two seasons now, accumulating 152 points in 162 games since taking over the mantle with Claude Giroux heading off to the wing…