Meltzer’s Musings: 8-19-10
August 19, 2010
A year ago at this time, the Hockey News predicted that the Flyers would win the Stanley Cup. After nearly making a farce of the prediction by coming within a shootout victory on the final day of the regular season of missing the playoffs, the Flyers came within two victories in the Finals of making the prediction come true. This time around, THN predicts that the Flyers will finish second to
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The NHL: Where Any Bum Can Get $1M
August 19, 2010
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Remember that painful day in June, when the Blackhawks clinched the Stanley Cup on our home ice. Remember in the aftermath, that bum Adam Burish was trash talking Pronger . Remember when he said that he hates Prongs , and if he saw him again, he’d punch him in the face? Flyers fans, time to mark our calendars. On Saturday, February 5th, 2011, Burish comes back to town. Someone please hit me! (Courtesy: styleandsports.com) If you are on the main BSB page, please click Continue Reading to see the rest of the post. The Dallas Stars just signed him for 2 years and $2.3M . What in the hell are they thinking, giving this bum this much money? Did he blow them away with his 11 goals in 169 career games? Is it his “toughness” and 323 penalty minutes? Is it his Stanley Cup Champion status that dazzled the Stars ? The status that he earned while playing an average of 5 minutes a game in the finals. No, it must be the fact that he promised to help their farm system, because he’d make a damn good minor leaguer.
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Summer School: QMJHL Review
August 19, 2010
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The final instalment of our summer reruns focuses on the Q, a league with which the Flyers have had a lot of success over the past 10 (sniff, sniff) years. In fact, their two top draft picks, Michael Chaput of the Lewiston MAINEiacs and Tye McGinn of Claude Giroux's Gatineau Olympiques, are both from the Quebec League. You may be surprised to learn that the Flyers only professional addition to the team from this league is a tough guy from Manitoba named Jody Shelley . Shelley racked up the PIMS, including a Schultzian 420 his final season, and the points for the Halifax Mooseheads during the mid '90's. ________ Running backs come from the Big Ten, point guards come from the ACC, and left fielders come from The University of Miami. But as to where the NHL's superstars come from little is known except for "Canada." Well that's right
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Holmgren discusses Gagne Trade
August 19, 2010
A transcript of Paul Holmgren's conference call today with reporters: Q: How hard was it to trade Simon Gagne? “Well, anytime you’re talking about a young man that has brought as much to the organization that Simon has, it’s very difficult.” Q: You have eight defenseman are you a little overloaded there or does this set up another move? “No I think ... having eight defensemen is a luxury, but we certainly feel comfortable right now and moving forward with the team, whether something else comes up over the course of the summer we’ll see. If something comes up that makes sense, obviously we’ll look at that but I think we were very fortunate last year. Our top four defensemen, over the course of the 105 games we played, I think they missed three games among the four of them. I’m not sure we can count on being that fortunate again, so we certainly believe we’ve upgraded our defense, not only in numbers, but in ability to play the game.” Q: The moves you made on defense have more been for guys who are either stay-at-home type, or more tenacious, physical types other than offensive defensemen, which you already had. Is that something that you felt was missing last year that you really needed to upgrade
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East Side Story
August 18, 2010
Sue, from the Ducks Daily Blog changed the word’s to the Jet’s Song from West Side Story, and apply it to the Ducks . Corny? Maybe. Just don’t say it to her face, she’ll Fed-Ex a stick right to your face. Anyway, because she’s such a HUGE Chris Pronger fan, I decided to go along with her little game, and change the lyrics to talk about the Flyers. Enjoy: If you are reading on the main BSB page, please click Continue Reading to see the rest of this post. RICHARDS : (Spoken) Against the Devils we need every man we got. BOUCHER : (Spoken) Leights don't belong any more.
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Summer School: OHL Review
August 18, 2010
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Today we're continuing our summer reruns with a slightly outdated look at the OHL, but it comes with a clip of Rob Lowe playing junior hockey so everyone wins in the end. As far as additions to the roster from the OHL all we have is 6th round pick in 1965 Sean O'Donnell, who played for the Sudbury Wolves. Have at it. _________ Running backs come from the Big Ten, point guards come from the ACC, and left fielders come from The University of Miami. But as to where the NHL's superstars come from little is known except for "Canada." Well that's right. A lot of the best NHL talent comes directly from three Major Junior Leagues in Canada that are collectively referred to as the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). They are the Western Hockey League (WHL), the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). As a matter of fact, 16 of the 20 guys on the Flyers roster today came from the CHL
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Jim Jackson and the Magical Moustache
August 17, 2010
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A pleasant good evening everybody, and welcome to Flyers hockey. I began watching hockey religiously during the lockout-shortened season in 1994-95. Eric Lindros was the top young player in the game, the orange and black were returning to the playoffs after a 5 year break, and a lot of the games were on Prism. Jim Jackson was pretty much starting out his career as the play by play man for the Flyers , as the great Gene Hart was finishing his career up. JJ was partnered with Gary Dornhoefer then, and the two made a pretty good team. JJ front and center, with his Motley Crue behind him. Through the years, players have changed, broadcast deals changed, color commentators have changed, coaches have changed, the building has changed, but Jim Jackson has remained. And throughout the years, he was easily recognizable because of his signature mustache
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Always Tip Your Server
August 17, 2010
Web hosting can be a hassle. There’s no way to precisely project incoming traffic, for starters. Also, if your server gets rocked by an influx of traffic or is for some reason experiencing technical difficulties, you want someone you can get in touch with no matter the time of day. Easier said than done, because even in the age of cell phones, texting, Twitter and Facebook, it can be hard to track down family and friends, let alone the help at your hosting company. Fortunately, we here at FanSided haven’t had those problems since we started working with exclusively with the good folks at Site5 . In fact, we were almost growing faster than we could keep up with and experiencing some server issues as a result — until they stepped in. Nowadays, we never have any significant issues with our server at all and the Site5 team offers us fantastic support essentially 24/7/365.
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On Affiliates, Hitch, Pronger …
August 17, 2010
Seems the last couple of seasons, the Flyers have bounced around with their minor league affiliates. This upcoming season is no different as they entered into an agreement with the ECHL's Greenville Road Warriors. That club is run by former Rangers' GM Neil Smith. Here's a question and I heard this asked more than once by veteran scribes at the NHL Draft this past June in Los Angeles. Wh
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Summer School: WHL Review
August 17, 2010
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It's been a long time, shouldn'dve left you, without a doubt post to step to, step to, step, step to. Truth is this has nothing to do with slow hockey news because hockey has always come secondary to farting on this blog. Work has got me over a barrel baby, and not in a good way. So I'm reaching into the vault and pulling out something you probably didn't read almost a year ago, because I'm an educator. This week we're going to be re-running a series on the Canadian Hockey League. Some of the Flyers are out of date but so are retro jerseys and no one seems to mind
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