When a little kid dreams of their first professional hockey game, they usually imagine storming down the boards with the puck on their blade and beating the goalie high glove side with a beautiful slap shot to win the game in overtime. Luckily for James van Riemsdyk, our childhood dreams are usually quite farfetched, unless…
The Flyers are back in action tonight after a week off, and Claude Giroux will be joining them for his preseason debut. He’s by all accounts recovered from his offseason hand injury, suffered when he showed a golf club that he’s the boss, and he’ll be in the lineup tonight against the New Jersey Devils….
In the name of Brotherly Love, we’re stealing a recurring feature from our friends over at Bleeding Green Nation. Around once a month moving forward, around the beginning of the month, we’ll put out a pair of polls with a pair of simple questions for you, our readers: do you approve of the jobs that…
The Philadelphia Flyers were unable to extend their winning streak to five, dropping a mistake-filled contest to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night. Sean Couturier’s goal-scoring streak came to a halt at four, not to mention his multi-goal game streak, ending at three. Claude Giroux was held without a point…
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes… Paul Holmgren gave an interview to Chuck Gormley, and it resulted in a great article: [Courier-Post] First, Travis wrote about what it could mean: [Broad Street Hockey] Then, I wrote about what it could mean: [SB Nation Philly] A profile…
The Flyers traded a top-6 winger for an inferior player today. No way around that. Scott Hartnell is better at hockey than R.J. Umberger, and the Flyers will not be able to replace Hartnell’s production with Umberger, even if they say otherwise. But there are bright sides to this trade. We still disagree with it,…
“I considered returning to the Avalanche, but they are struggling (losing six of their past seven) and I didn’t want to take any space under the salary cap. I didn’t want to return to the Flyers after all my foot problems the last time I was there.” –Peter Forsberg, via Toronto SunThank you, Peter. If…
[Boxscore] – [Ottawa Reaction] Final – 1.3.2010 1 2 3 Total Philadelphia Flyers 1 3 0 4 Ottawa Senators 4 0 3 7 Complete Coverage > PART 1: They looked terrible. After Ian Laperriere gave the Philadelphia Flyers a 1-0 lead just two minutes, ten seconds into Sunday afternoon’s contest with the Ottawa Senators, they…
Morning Observations is a new feature, where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. In the November 25th game against the Islanders, the Flyers posted their worst controlled zone entry percentage of the season (26.87%). During that game, Philadelphia was generating little speed through the neutral zone, which caused them to…
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes… *The Flyers make it two losses in a row on the back of another incredibly frustrating, lackluster performance. Recaps at BSH, NHL.com, Philly.com, Courier-Post, Yahoo! Sports, & TSN. *So…how long until we start freaking out about Giroux? Ginger Jesus has…