Category: Philadelphia Flyers

  • Roberto Luongo in Orange?

    For Philadelphia Flyers fans, each and every year is filled with spectacular rumors of trades, free agent acquisitions, and the like. Some hold water, most do not. Thus is life in a sports town filled with spiritually devoted zealots as fans and a brazen media that perpetuates the cycle of rampant speculation. After a disappointing…

  • 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…

  • Flyers shopping for a goalie? Emery?

    Well comcast today said it.  There have been a lot of rumors floating around and I was not sure if they were true or not but it seems that it indeed is the case.  The Flyers are indeed looking for a goalie.  Well, that’s a start now lets dump Danny Boy’s contract and get a…

  • 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…

  • Flyers Mike Richards to have Surgery

    As always happens at the end of a hockey season, the injuries become public. And one of the more surprising announcements of the offseason is that Mike Richards has been playing with a torn labrum in his right shoulder and will have surgery Friday. The Flyers also announced that Richards will need surgery on his…

  • Flyers lose the series

    Well theres not much to say here, we lost, Pens won grats Pens fans you can now talk your trash.  Flyers start planning for next year now please! I did not get a chance to watch this game (prob why they lost) so I will post from ESPN.com Sergei Gonchar scored 2:19 into the third…

  • 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…

  • Flyers fall to the Pens are down 3-1 in series

    Flyers had a chance to even this series up and take it back to Pittsburgh and allow fate or whatever it is that you believe in to take it from there.  But that was not the case, I did not get a chance to watch but the last 7 minutes but from what I heard…

  • Philadelphia must have a sale on BROOMS

    So is there some type of sale or free give-away on BROOMS right now in the city?  What a huge day it has been in this city from a professional sports level.  Lets take a look at everything that went down. The Phillies came back in their game to sweat out a win in a…

  • 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…