Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes… Chris Pronger has been helping the Flyers off the ice despite struggling at home: [CSNPhilly] Rob Zombie will write, direct, and produce a film about the Broad Street Bullies approved by the Flyers: [Deadline.com] [The Checking Line] [the700level] The Phantoms…
Back at the trading deadline, Chris Burton from On the Forecheck offered to swap scouting reports with us on Dan Hamhuis and Ryan Parent if a trade went down. We had to wait three months, but the trade finally went down. With that, Chris and I swapped words on the now departed players. Both of…
CHICAGO — And you thought the Flyers were done. Ron Hextall is never done. Brayden Schenn has been traded to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for the 27th overall pick in this year’s draft, NHL center Jori Lehtera and a conditional 2018 first round pick. With the 27th pick acquired in the trade, the…
Want to get hit with a serious wave of nostalgia? Kimmo Timonen has you covered. And even though Scott Hartnell is still with the Columbus Blue Jackets, he’s helping out on that front, too. Great honor to be standing up in my best friends wedding!!! #bestman #1000games A photo posted by Kime4Kids (@kime4kids) on Oct…
We’ve spent the night celebrating the Flyers trip to the 2010 Eastern Conference Championship, as many around the city and the region have also done. After the jump, in similar fashion to the time capsule we put together following the Flyers’ miraculous Game 7 win against Boston, we take a look at how the media…
We recently looked at how balanced zone shifts compare a player against his peers in their ability to shift play from one end to the other, as judged by where shifts start and end. Why not do the same thing with shots? After the jump, I’ll describe a new balanced Corsi metric that compares a…
Yet again, Ilya Bryzgalov has opened up to the Russian media. In an interview with Sovetsky Sport’s Pavel Lysenkov, brought to a North American audience via a translation at Puck Daddy, Bryzgalov says that he’ll play in Russia in the event of an NHL lockout this fall. He didn’t do that in 2004-05 and regrets…
4 – The number of consecutive multi-goal games Sean Couturier would have if he scored two or more goals tonight. At the moment, Couturier has three straight multi-goal games, something that has been completed just twice since 1987-1988 (the season Hockey-Reference’s single-game stat lines date back to). Tim Kerr scored two goals in three straight…
Well, this was pretty expected. Despite rumblings that we may be seeing Brian Elliott back on the ice soon (“week-to-week” was the vague timetable given), it turns out that the ice he’ll be back on is not quite the one at the Wells Fargo Center. The #Flyers have loaned G Brian Elliott to the @LVPhantoms…
*We are just under ten days out for the Entry Draft and you can bet your butts that all of the focus will be on whomst the Flyers will pick once we get to the day. Would it be, perhaps, a guy that scored a whole lot of points this year? [NBC Sports Philly] *How…