Six year deals for everybody! The Flyers have signed Scott Hartnell to a six-year contract extension this afternoon, according to the team. It comes one week after the Flyers signed forward Wayne Simmonds to a six-year deal worth just under $4 million per season. Financial terms of Hartnell’s deal are not immediately available, so we’ll…
Let’s take a quick tour around the Metro and see how our pals (read: enemies) around the division are trending. [BSH] We’ve got some numbers! A new quality of competition metric! And it says some interesting things about the Flyers. [BSH] We love trade talks, and we’re continuing our look at potential trade targets with…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. On the whole, this game really could have went either way, so an overtime finish where even the loser receives a point was the most fair outcome. The Flyers essentially broke even in the 5-on-5 puck possession metrics,…
With the 165th overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, the Philadelphia Flyers have taken right winger Egor Serdyuk. The 5’11”, 165-pound Russian forward spent this past season in the QMJHL and is expected to return to the junior league for 2019-20. He finished this season ranked as the 71st skater on Central Scouting…
92.63% — the combined team-level save percentages of the two teams that the Flyers will play tonight and tomorrow. Via hockey-reference.com, the Chicago Blackhawks enter tonight’s game having stopped 92.46 percent of all shots that they’ve faced so far this season (excluding empty-net goals against). That’s the third-best mark in the NHL. And if that…
It’s about 9 p.m. Monday night. If you were to Twitter search “rigged” right now, it’s shockingly apolitical. This is actually the result of – wait, that can’t be right – hockey? As you know, Chicago won last night’s draft lottery, which also resulted in Anaheim receiving the second pick. I get it. I’m on…
It’s not the Hart Trophy. It’s not the Stanley Cup. But hey, Claude Giroux’s taking home at least a little bit of hardware this season. He’s been named the winner of the 2012 John Wanamaker Athletic Award, presented annually by the Philadelphia Sports Congress (PSC), a division of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau. What…
Round 2 of the supposed rapid fire voting (vote faster!) begins. Mike Richards Kimmo Timonen Jeff Carter Chris Pronger Simon Gagne Claude Giroux Ray Emery Scott Hartnell Braydon Coburn Danny Briere James van Riemsdyk Matt Carle Ryan Parent Ian Laperriere Darroll Powe Brian Boucher Arron Asham Mika Pyorala Blair Betts Dan Carcillo Danny Syvret Ole-Kristian…
Back-to-back wins? In October? Alright, who is this hockey team and what have they done with the real Flyers? They may have made things interesting at the end, with Chicago dictating play for basically the entire third period, but they held on regardless. A strong second period and decent first lead to the win, but…
According to a report in the National Post, Ed Snider would be an integral part in managing and operating the proposed 20,000 seat arena in Markham, a northern suburb of Toronto. Global Spectrum, Snider’s former company that he later sold to Comcast-Spectacor, a corporation he now chairs, has agreed to a partnership with the arena….