There will be some new food options inside Wells Fargo Center this year, which you may have already seen if you’ve been to a preseason game. Among them are a few Lee’s Hoagies stands and a few Chick-fil-A stands. Chick-fil-A will enter the arena at Sections 110, 104 and 207. There were basic hot dog…
*Like literally every player that plays here, Danny Briere loves Philadelphia. Here’s his opening statements from his retirement press conference, for your enjoyment. [Flyers] *Briere is very often described as a class act. Here’s why. [Courier-Post] *Despite playing for several other teams during his career, Briere fit best right here in Philly. [Daily News] *The…
Yesterday we walked through how an NHL expansion draft might work, according to rules that were made public at the NHL’s annual spring general managers meeting this week. Most of it is pretty straight forward: in the event of expansion there will be a draft, teams can lose one player for each of the expansion…
24.1 percent: the total percentage of 5-on-5 shot attempts taken by the Flyers this season while both Luke Schenn and Nicklas Grossmann are on the ice. Yesterday afternoon, the Flyers just happened to acquire New York Islanders defenseman Andrew MacDonald. We talked about it for a little bit on BSH radio yesterday evening. We had…
This week, SB Nation will unveil its winners for seven different NHL awards. Bloggers from across our hockey network have voted on the awards, and today we begin with the Vezina Trophy, handed out each year to the NHL’s top goalie. I think this is the part where we’re supposed to lead this Vezina Trophy-related…
Three games into the season, the pressure is already on for the 0-2 Flyers.
Simon Gagne has retired from hockey. The 35-year-old former Flyers winger announced his retirement on Tuesday morning, although it was probably a foregone conclusion well before that. Gagne most recently played with the Boston Bruins, leaving the team in January 2015 after the death of his father. Gagne, drafted by the Flyers in 1999, played…
7:30 p.m. Wells Fargo CenterSouth PhiladelphiaGame 4, Eastern QuarterfinalsFlyers lead series, 3-0TV: CSN Philly, NBCSN, TSN, RDS2, ROOTRADIO: 610 WIP — not 94 WIPPENS BLOG: PensBurgh We all know what happened in 2010. We remember the feeling of dread when the Flyers fell down in an 0-3 hole, just as we remember the glimmer of…
Philadelphia Flyers at (5-2-1, 11 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (1-5-2, 4 pts) 7:30 p.m. at Centre Bell in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Catch the action on CSN Philly HD, TSN, RDS and 94WIP [Game Page] – [Montreal Perspective] Tonight’s goaltenders: GP MIN W L OTL GA GAA SA SV SV% SO Ilya Bryzgalov 6 359 3…
The Flyers badly need points in a jam-packed playoff race, and they’ll be able to get two birds stoned at once tonight. Not only would the Flyers gain two points in the standings with a win in Montreal tonight, but they’d take points away from the Canadiens —one of the teams occupying a playoff spot…