With the 72nd overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, the Philadelphia Flyers have selected right-handed defenseman Ronnie Attard. The 6’3”, 207-pound blue liner is from Michigan making him the third American player taken by Chuck Fletcher in this year’s draft. The Athletic’s Corey Pronman had Attard ranked 60th in his top 107 prospects…
Tonight’s game is on CSN Philly, CSNPhilly.com and 97.5 The Fanatic locally. FS Ohio has the Columbus broadcast. Sportsnet One has the game in Canada, and it’s also the NHL.tv free game of the week. Philadelphia lineup Forwards Jordan Weal – Claude Giroux – Wayne Simmonds Brayden Schenn – Valtteri Filppula – Jakub Voracek Travis…
So we’re doing this shit again, huh? I mean, listen. I get it. Beat writers have a tough, thankless job. They mostly get summers off, but from September to July, it’s a damn grind. They wake up, go to a workplace where none of their clients want to talk to them, and they have to…
The playoffs are something we’re almost spoiled with as Philadelphia fans. Sure our teams always find a way to screw up in some sort of dramatic fashion on the big stage, but at least we can say they tried; except trying doesn’t explain why the Philadelphia Soul have won the most championships in Philadelphia sports…
For as long as Shayne Gostisbehere keeps scoring, we’ll continue to point out new and exciting statistical milestones he reaches and/or ties, because it’s only the right thing to do. (While knocking on wood the entire time, because, again, we want this to last for the rest of his career, pretty much.) Gostisbehere has been…
It’s a loud episode of BSH Radio this week, with Bill going to bat for a decidedly bad coaching candidate, anarchy among the fan base and nothing having actually happened in so long that we’re eating our young. Does Travis Sanheim’s emergence make Ghost more tradable? How do they change the culture of underachievement? Is…
8 — the number of quality starts the Flyers have received from their two goaltenders through their first 11 games this year. What’s a “quality start”? As defined by Rob Vollman in the 2013 Hockey Abstract (via NHLNumbers): If the starting goalie stopped at least a league average number of shots, which was typically 91.3%…
Day two of the 2011 NHL Draft is here, and the Philadelphia Flyers are back in the familiar position of trying to find players who they can trade next year in the middle to late rounds. Who knows, maybe somebody will bring in a Tom Sestito. Or maybe somebody will supplant Garrett Klotz as BSH’s…
Flyers lead series 1-0 [Box Score] – [Wire Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [Montreal Reaction] [Corsi and Fenwick] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [EV Faceoffs] – [Shift Charts] The Flyers got by the Boston Bruins in round two by playing as a team. They got scoring from everywhere, solid goaltending from whoever was in net,…
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes… Dave takes a look at the Flyers awful history in shootouts and why they have to improve at them: [SB Nation Philly] Matt Carle is keeping an eye on contract extensions, while Frank wonders if Carle could get James Wisniewski…