Today's open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes... There are conflicting injury reports on Nicklas Grossmann: [Bill Meltzer] Looking at pending RFAs - including Jakub Voracek - and asking ...
The Clarence Campbell Bowl was in Staples Center for the first time, waiting to be presented by Commissioner Gary Bettman to the NHL's Western Conference champions. The Los Angeles Kings' long-suffering fans gathered downtown shortly after dawn, ...
Philly.com’s Sam Carchidi believes that future Hall of Famer Jaromir Jagr is prepared to walk after only one year in Philadelphia, though it was Jagr’s lack of answer that convinced Carchidi the right winger won’t be returning to the City of ...
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The Phoenix Coyotes weren't about to go quietly into the night as long as captain Shane Doan had a say in the matter.Source: Yahoo! Sports
New Jersey Devils Coach Pete DeBoer called Rangers forward Brandon Prust's Game 3 elbow against defenseman Anton Volchenkov "headhunting … plain and simple." New York Rangers Coach John Tortorella called Prust an "honest player" and inferred that Volchenkov sold the incident. Prust himself said "it wasn't vicious at all," while Volchenkov said it was "pretty dirty." The NHL Department of Player Safety? They determined it was worth a one-game suspension for Prust, who will miss Monday's Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final in Newark: The incident occurred at 2:31 of the second period. There was no penalty called on the play. As the video shows, Prust flailed out his arm to clip Volchenkov in the head after the Devils defenseman spun away from a check. That fact that there was no injury on the play and that Prust has no prior interaction with Brendan Shanahan and the Department of Player Safety might make a one-game suspension in the Eastern Conference Final seem severe. But Shanahan and the NHL have sent a message twice about this kind of hit, with this type of result.
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Shane Doan scored twice and Mike Smith posted this third shutout of the post-season as the Phoenix Coyotes staved off elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs by beating Los Angeles 2-0 on Sunday.
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Howall the current Philadelphia teams have fared against their Boston counterpart.Source: Yahoo! Sports
The Philadelphia Flyers will be haunted by their incompetence against the New Jersey Devils all offseason. Flyers fans like myself could hardly figure out how the Devils embarrassed Philadelphia with four straight wins in the second round, as they overwhelmed it from Game 1 on. However, the New York Rangers have been much better equipped to handle such an attack in the Eastern Conference finals - namely from having a better goalie.Source: Philly.com
In his latest playoff gem, Henrik Lundqvist had little time to do more than stop every breakaway or two-on-one New Jersey shot his way. When he took a moment to breathe, Lundqvist had all the confidence his New York Rangers would bail him out with a goal or two.Source: Philly.com
The Flyers released their postseason injury report Saturday, and it included three players who recently had surgery, and two players who will have operations this week, according to general manager Paul Holmgren.Source: Philly.com
So where do the Flyers - after a very good regular season that morphed into a very weird playoff showing - go from here?Source: Philly.com
So where do the Flyers - after a very good regular season that morphed into a very weird playoff showing - go from here?Source: Philly.com
So where do the Flyers - after a very good regular season that morphed into a very weird playoff showing - go from here?Source: Philly.com
So where do the Flyers - after a very good regular season that morphed into a very weird playoff showing - go from here?Source: Philly.com
So where do the Flyers - after a very good regular season that morphed into a very weird playoff showing - go from here?Source: Flyers Fan Central by Bill Meltzer
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Tough D, at every turn. (Courtesy: Kirby Lee/Image of Sport-US PRESSWIRE)
As of this writing, the LA Kings are up 3-0 in their series with the Phoenix Coyotes, and likely will be the Western Conference rep in the Stanley Cup Finals. Meanwhile, the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils have split the first two games, and are even at 0-0 during the second intermission of game 3. I just wanted to examine how the teams are playing, and if the Flyers can be close to being at this level next season.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) All-Star forward Claude Giroux headlines a list of five Philadelphia Flyers who needed offseason surgery.Source: Yahoo! Sports
New Jersey Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov has taken quite a beating of late. In Game 5 against the Philadelphia Flyers last round he was crunched by Zac Rinaldo, getting the wind knocked out of him . This afternoon in Game 3 against the New York Rangers, Volchenkov was on the receiving end of a Brandon Prust elbow to the back of the head: Prust was not penalized on the play and Volchenkov remained in the game. It was an unnecessary elbow. Prust didn't need to get his arm up that high on Volchenkov to finish his check. Volchenkov, for the moment, didn't suffer any apparent injury. Raffi Torres was fined for his own unnecessary elbow to the head of Jan Hejda earlier this season. Do those two factor help make it fall from suspendable to just a fine? Follow Sean Leahy on Twitter at @Sean_LeahySource: Yahoo! Sports
It's difficult to know if Philadelphia Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren believed that the massive roster revolution he led last year would result in a Stanley Cup victory this June.Source: Flyers Fan Central by FlyersRecentHeadlines
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We don't necessarily know when all of these injuries occurred, but we do know that five key Flyers were suffering from injuries during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. A full list was released by the team this morning, and it includes:
Wayne Simmonds, who has already had surgery to repair a broken left index finger. He'll be ready in plenty of time for next season.Source: Flyer Files by Randy Miller
Several Flyers players have undergone surgery since the team was eliminated from the NHL playoffs almost two weeks ago, general manager Paul Holmgren announced Saturday.
Here are the injury updates:
Wayne Simmonds – Had surgery to repair broken left index finger. Recovery time is 4-6 weeks.
Matt Carle – Had surgery to repair torn stomach muscle. Recovery time is 4-6 weeks.
Claude Giroux – had surgery on right wrist to repair torn cartilage and surgery on left wrist to remove bone spurs. Recovery time is 6 weeks.
Kimmo Timonen – Will have surgery next week to remove a disc fragment from his lower back. Full recovery is expected in 8-to-10 weeks.
James van Riemsdyk – Will have surgery next week to repair a torn labrum in his right hip. Recovery time is 6 weeks.
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In a little over a month, Evgeni Malkin will be awarded the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading scoring and most likely the Hart Trophy for league MVP. Bouncing back from a torn ACL and MCL last season, Malkin put up 50 goals and 109 points for the Pittsburgh Penguins this season. After their first round elimination by the Philadelphia Flyers where he scored eight points in six games, Malkin has continued his tear with Russia at the World Championships in Helsinki and Stockholm. In today's 6-2 semifinal victory over host Finland, Malkin tallied his second hat trick of the tournament as the Russians moved on to Sunday's gold medal tilt against the winner of Slovakia-Czech Republic: With the hat trick, Malkin has points in all nine games and overtook Patrick Thoreson (!) as leading scorer in the tournament with 10 goals and eight assists. Second in scoring for Russia is Alexander Popov with 11 points. The Finns won the tournament last year, but according to IIHF.com , home ice hasn't been kind host teams. The Soviet Union in 1986 was the last host side to win gold. Next year's tournament will again be hosted in Helsinki and Stockholm. Maybe the Finns and Swedes can ask to have all of their games be played away from home? Follow Sean Leahy on Twitter at @Sean_LeahySource: Philly.com by Sam Carchidi
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Dwight King has been living in a hotel since the Los Angeles Kings recalled him from the minors just over three months ago, and the playoff hero isn't about to move out of his temporary digs. He's not tempting fate while the Kings are on the verge of exceeding his wildest dreams for his first NHL postseason run.Source: Flyers Fan Central by FlyersRecentHeadlines
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Winning in a shot-blocking era.Source: Broad Street Hockey by PursuitOfLappyness
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The Flyers have a first round draft pick! And we know about it more than a few days in advance! The Flyers will pick at #20 in the draft.
To mark this momentous occasion, it may be worthwhile looking at some of the options in the draft. In particular, I think it's reasonable to explore the options in defense, considering we're nicely stacked up forward at the moment. Usually, in the NHL draft, going BPA is a solid option. However, the Flyers have young forward depth that not many other teams can boast of, and have a weakness on D that needs addressing.
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The Flyers have a first round draft pick! And we know about it more than a few days in advance! The Flyers will pick at #20 in the draft.
To mark this momentous occasion, it may be worthwhile looking at some of the options in the draft. In particular, I think it's reasonable to explore the options in defense, considering we're nicely stacked up forward at the moment. Usually, in the NHL draft, going BPA is a solid option. However, the Flyers have young forward depth that not many other teams can boast of, and have a weakness on D that needs addressing.
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I think it's about that time
— Zac Rinaldo (@RinaldoZac) May 18, 2012
Ut oh.
Taking your suggestions in the comments: What time is it in Zac Rinaldo's world?
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The Eastern finals between the New Jersey Devils and rival New York Rangers are turning out to be exactly what everyone thought.Source: Broad Street Hockey by Geoff Detweiler
Today's open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes...
Randy Miller "clarifies" his story from last week: "I originally found the English version of the quotes in various Twitter postings by media colleagues, including Natalia [Bragilevskaya], and I confirmed those quotes were accurate." It's still worth noting that Bragilevskaya never posted quotes in English to Twitter. [Courier Post]Source: Philly.com
Jesse Joensuu's winning goal with nine seconds left lifted Finland past the United States, 3-2, on Thursday for a place in the semifinals of the hockey world championships in Helsinki.Source: Philly.com
The Eastern finals between the New Jersey Devils and rival New York Rangers are turning out to be exactly what everyone thought.Source: Yahoo! Sports
Make it eight. No, not Canadian teams -- consecutive wins for the Los Angeles Kings, who took a 3-0 series lead over the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference Finals with a 2-1 Game 3 victory. While the result was the same, Thursday night's script was slightly different, at least for the first 21 minutes. The Coyotes came out stronger in Los Angeles, outshooting the Kings 11-8 in the first period and showing that they wouldn't go easily. A minute into the second period, they finally beat Jonathan Quick, as Daymond Langkow slipped a shot through the LA netminder's pads on a partial breakaway to give the Coyotes their first lead of the series. But only 127 seconds later, the Kings answered. Dustin Brown found Anze Kopitar streaking in behind the Phoenix defence, and Kopitar made two elite plays to tie the score: first, he deftly accepted the pass by kicking it from his skate to his stick, and second, he opened up Mike Smith up with a first-class deke, slipping the puck through the five-hole. And then the Kings kept answering.Source: Flyers Fan Central by Randy Miller
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As you may or may not know, there are now only four teams remaining in the playoffs. While some are convinced that anything short of winning a Stanley Cup represents a failure, I would contend that making it to this final four stage constitutes an indisputably really good postseason, if not a really good entire season.
The NHL then gives these superb final four teams the worst picks in the draft, because they're socialists and that's how they roll.
But what I'm trying to say here is that making it to the final four in the playoffs is good. It's really, really good. It wasn't that special in the Original Six era when it came with making the playoffs at all, but since then it's been something really good.
So which
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