Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsAnother year has passed and Eric Lindros has once again been overlooked for enshrinement in the Hockey Hall of Fame. On Tuesday, it was announced that the 2012 class would include Joe Sakic, Pavel Bure, Mats Sundin, and Adam Oates. Let me first say that I think it is a bigger embarrassment that Brendan Shanahan ...
After falling in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the second year in a row, the Flyers are going to have some work to do. The team has 9 players with expiring contracts, this includes guys like Ian Laperriere and Blair Betts who will both likely retire due to injuries, and Harry ...
In the regular season the Philadelphia Flyers met the New Jersey Devils six times and split the series winning three games a piece. The two Atlantic Division rivals will drop the puck for Game 1 of their Eastern Conference Semifinals matchup today at 3, here’s how I see the two teams matching up. Forwards: Flyers ...
Every year the NHL awards the Hart Trophy to the most valuable player in the league. Apparently 93 points and being the leader of a completely revamped roster (a team that finished with the third most points in the East and sixth in the entire NHL) isn’t enough to get you in the top three ...
Coming into the series, the Pittsburgh Penguins were the overwhelming favorite to not only win this series but were also the popular choice to go and win the Stanley Cup. After three games, the Philadelphia Flyers had grabbed a commanding 3-0 series lead and everybody had them penciled into the next round. Since then, the ...
James van Riemsdyk made his return to the ice Friday night for the first time since breaking his foot back on March 1st against the New York Islanders. JVR was unnoticeable for the first half of the game as he only had four shifts for 1:57 of ice time in the first 32:11. A major ...
I don’t think anybody could have predicted the start this series has had. Coming into the playoffs, all of the so-called experts were picking the Pittsburgh Penguins to win the Stanley Cup this year. Very few picked the Philadelphia Flyers to take them out in the first round. But after two games, there have been two ...
It’s almost here. The most anticipated first round matchup between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers will drop the puck on Wednesday night at 7:30. Hockey fans have been waiting for this since April 1st when Penguins forward Joe Vitale crushed Danny Briere of the Flyers leading to a brawl on the ice and a ...
Each spring some player shocks the world and plays above and beyond what everybody was expecting from them on the national stage. In 2008, R.J. Umberger put up 10 goals and five assists in 17 games. In 2009, Claude Giroux had a great all around series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, scoring two goals and three ...
This past Saturday the Flyers clinched a playoff berth becoming the third team in the Atlantic Division to do so this season. The franchise is looking to reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in three years, and hopes to win its first Cup since Bernie Parent and Bobby Clarke carried them there ...
