For those unfamiliar with the Flyers local broadcast, Steve Coates is the man who reports from ice level while standing between the benches. I personally don’t like him because he speaks really fast, adds NOTHING to the broadcast, and is just plain annoying.  At least once a game he’ll mention that he had a view [...]

This is an Olympic year, so there’s no all-star game.  However, if there were, who should be in it?
Chris Pronger: He’s 7th among defensemen in points, with a total of 37.  He’s been named to the Canadian Olympic Team.  He’s also an assistant captain in his first season with the team.  His presence has been [...]

So we’re past the midpoint of the season, and have played some intense games in the past few weeks.  At this point right now, who do we hate most?

Saturday vs Canes:

The game started up pretty well, with Dan Carcillo scoring a sweet goal, on a chance the he completely created on his own.  First, he stole the puck as Carolina tried to take it out of their zone, deked out the goalie with a nice backhand-forehand combo, and wristed a shot over Manny [...]

Whatever pre-game hype there was, this game exceeded it. The Flyers won a thriller 2-0, and had a few fights to boot.  Neither goal was very pretty, but any goal on Lundqvist and the Rags is pretty sweet. JVR got a partial breakaway, ripped a shot, then backhanded the rebound into the net about 15 [...]