Sharks coach Todd McLellan promised some changes for Game 3 tonight in San Jose. Based on warmups, I would think this is it: a new fourth line of Jame McGuinn, Andrew Desjardins and Jamal Mayers.
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The 2012 Winter Classic is coming to Philly and with it comes an incredible opportunity for the Flyers to give a warm embrace to their prodigal son, Eric Lindros. Think about it. Big E playing in an alumni game, flanked by Legion of Doom linemates John LeClair and Mikael Renberg. Now THAT would be a winter classic! The Flyers have a rich tradition and have done an excellent job of preserving it. But now is the time for them to move away from their Broad Street Bully days and celebrate the players who have carried the torch for the past quarter century
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Today the Adirondack Phantoms, in collaboration with their NHL Affiliate Philadelphia Flyers, proudly announce that Joe Paterson has been hired as the team’s Head Coach. Paterson returns behind the bench after taking over the coaching dut...
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The Flyers have generally gone a good job at locking up the players they most want and need to keep before the players reach unrestricted free agency. They will have some challenging decisions to make over the next year about what do about Braydon Coburn and Matt Carle. Both defensemen will become unrestricted free agents after the 2011-12 season. The 26-year-old Coburn currently earns $3.2 mi
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Flyers forward Nik Zherdev’s chances of returning to the NHL suffered a major setback today when a Russian newspaper reported that he may face charges after an altercation with his wife. According to a report in the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, Zherdev got into a verbal altercation with his wife at a Russian restaurant, then chased her car and struck it with a pole. According to witnesses he also insulted the woman and threatened her with death. Zherdev recently completed his first season with the Flyers after signing a one-year, $2 million contract. He will become a free agent on July 1.
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Immediately the first person you would think of is Kimmo Timonen when comparing Flyers prospect Erik Gustafsson to any player on the current Flyers squad. If that’s the case, then the Flyers have found an undrafted, hidden gem in the rink...
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I have gotten several PMs and emails from people today asking for my reaction to the report that surfaced in Russia about an alleged criminal battery incident involving Flyers forward Nikolay Zherdev and his wife. My response is simply that we should wait until there is reliable information available about what, if anything, actually happened. There is reason to suspect that the story may be en
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Q: You’ve seen a lot of captains over the years and all of them have had different personalities. Do you feel it’s important that a captain be a spokesperson for the team? A: Truthfully, it is important to me and it’s one of the things I’m going to discuss with Mike because it is one of the jobs that a captain has. It’s something Mike has to address.
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I was going through my tape recorder today and came across a one-on-one interview I had with Paul Holmgren in March. We were discussing Mike Richards and I asked him if he thought it was important for the captain of a hockey team to speak with the media. This was Holmgren's response (remember, this was before all the post-season questions about Richards' captaincy) : "I would hope that as he gets older and more mature he’ll get better. I mean, I don’t like dealing with you guys either, not because I don’t like you guys or anything like that
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Kinda surprised me how the Sharks faded against the Canucks in the third period of Game 1. I asked Todd McLellan the other day whether the emotional high of a Game 7 win over Detroit simply didn't carry over because his players seemed flat. He agreed to a point and then on Tuesday admitted he spent most of the morning's video session "massaging the minds" of his players, trying to convince
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