Tag: philadelphia flyers
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Revisiting the Pronger trade(and other moves this season)
At the beginning of the season many sports experts and outlets picked the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup after their acquisition of nasty blue-liner Chris Pronger. Well, so far, those predictions are looking bad. This season has been the epitome of underachieving. This team has, or should have, a high powered offense lead…
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Trade Deadline Recap- Flyers Thoughts
Well, another deadline passed, and more teams shuffled players, but no big move came at this year’s deadline. The Kovalchuk trade that sent Ilya and his stardom to Parise and the Devils made the last big bang prior to the Olympics. Some of the larger acquistions on Wednesday were Wojtek Wolski to the Phoenix Coyotes…
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Flyers Close to Signing Tollefsen
Pending his passing of a physical today, Ole-Kristian Tollefsen will become a member of the Philadelphia Flyers defense corps. Reports are that Tollefsen will be playing with the big club, and not the Phantoms despite the number of defensemen the Flyers already have on the big league roster. Tollefsen, 25, has decent size at 6’2″,…
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Pronger Press Conference
As of noon today all-star defenseman Chris Pronger was officially welcomed to the Philadelphia Flyers by way of press conference at which he was handed his very own orange number 20 jersey. Everything he brings to the Flyers has been listed numerous times, but among all of his talents on the ice he brings the…
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New season, new netminder
Barring a collapse in negotiations, the Flyers are expected to sign Ray Emery as their starting goalie for next season. Several general managers at the Stanley Cup Final consider the matter a “done deal.” Emery was Ottawa’s property until released by the Senators last June. Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren declined to confirm what others…
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Future Flyers: Kevin Marshall
Background: Born: March 10, 1989– Boucherville, PQ Height: 6’1″– Weight: 207–Shoots: L You get the feeling 19-year-old Kevin Marshall was born to wear a Philadelphia Flyers jersey. “I’m the type of guy who doesn’t want to be liked by the other team but who everyone on his team wants to have,” Marshall told NHL.com. “I’ve…
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Prospect of the Week: James vanRiemsdyk
Today we’re going to look at the future of the Philadelphia Flyers, the 2nd overall pick of the 2006 draft and left winger from the University of New Hampshire, 20 year old James vanRiemsdyk. After two years of collegiate hockey, vanRiemsdyk signed a contract with the Philadelphia Phantoms for the stretch run (hopefully, it’s the…
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Can you get better and do Worse?
Is it possible for a hockey team to get better than the year before, yet be eliminated two rounds earlier in the Stanley Cup playoffs? If you’re talking about the 2008-09 Flyers, the answer is yes. With six forwards scoring 25 or more goals and a revamped defense that got a whole lot quicker with…
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Flyers not going away yet! Game 6
Flyers are not done yet. They want to hang around for game 6 in Philadelphia at 3pm. I might be able to get out to that game let’s see if I can get the tickets. About the game though. First off hats off to Marty Biron for getting a shut-out! He was great when we…
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Flyers are back
The boys are back in town… Today the Flyers played the Pens again, and came out strong getting 2 goals on 2 shots. Pens go on to tie it up but the Flyers would not have that at all. Biron played a great game in the net and did a wonderful job for us. While…