My internet was out for most of the night this evening, meaning I didn’t read much about tonight’s Game 1 while the action was going on. I checked in on Twitter a few times, but you don’t get much opinion out of 140 character long messages. Nothing that makes you think too hard, at least….
*Welcome to August and the start of the Broad Street Hockey 25 Under 25!! We got a TON of votes from you guys, which makes this lots of fun. First up, the honorable mentions. [BSH] *Speaking of dudes who are under the age of 25, of Alex Lyon and Anthony Stolarz, who gets the call…
The #Flyers are proud to announce a new city-wide event! Tune in now on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/NTwrlEswMA — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) April 18, 2017 The Flyers did a cool thing this morning, announcing a new “Flyers Charity Classic” that includes a 5k race and a few long-distance bike rides. The details are here. Perhaps more importantly,…
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms were back at home to host the Hartford Wolf Pack on Teddy Bear Toss night. It wouldn’t take long for the teddies to rain down from the stands as Chris Bigras opened up the scoring less than two minutes into regulation. The first period was a big test for the Phantoms….
Danny Briere retired from hockey on Monday morning, ending a 17 year career in which he played 973 regular season NHL games. Six of those seasons were with the Philadelphia Flyers, and Briere will officially say goodbye with a press conference at the Skate Zone on Tuesday. “After taking a few weeks to think about…
Tonight’s game begins at 8:30 p.m. ET and can be: Seen on TV locally via NBC Sports Philadelphia (or via stream on the NBC Sports App) Heard via radio locally on 97.5 The Fanatic Seen in Dallas via FS-Southwest+ Seen or heard elsewhere via NHL.tv, NHL Center Ice, and Sirius XM/ Projected Flyers lineup: Forwards…
*Noted Very Good Hockey Team™ the Nashville Predators are in town tonight and it’ll be very interesting to see if the Flyers can repeat their strong performance from Tuesday night against some much tougher competition. But before we dive into the next game, let’s look at what we learned from the last one. [BSH] *Charlie’s…
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes… More on The Trap Trolling Trip to Tampa: [NHL.com] [CSNPhilly] [Inquirer] Yet another Winter Classic jersey was “leaked”, but for realz this time, a source confirmed it: [icethetics] [The Checking Line] John Stevens will be inducted in the AHL Hall…
This is part four of a four-part series by Charlie O’Connor describing and evaluating the penalty kill of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2015-16. In Part One, we outlined and defined the different formations that the Flyers’ penalty kill used in their forechecking and defensive zone strategies. Part Two delved into the manually-tracked forechecking metrics. Part…
So far, we here at Broad Street Hockey have sized up the races for the Flyers‘ end-of-year team awards by looking at the candidates for the Barry Ashbee Trophy, the Pelle Lindbergh Memorial Trophy, and the Yanick Dupre Class Guy Award and the Gene Hart Memorial Award. Here, we’ll wrap up our award selections with…