Flyers West Update: Your Move, Kings

By Kim Pollock
Posted on 06/11/2012 at 1:00 pm

Rooting for your favorite team can be a wild ride. Any hockey fan will tell you that. You celebrate all the highs and commiserate over all of the lows. It’s never simple. Great teams sometimes struggle. Awful teams sometimes prevail. And just when you think you know how a game or a series is going to turn out, everything changes. No one expected the eighth-seeded Kings to make it very far in the playoffs, let alone to the Stanley Cup Final. They’ve been breaking records and making history, and it’s been a great ride so far for both the organization …

CBA 101 Part 4: Cap Space Calculations

By Kevin Christmann
Posted on 06/11/2012 at 11:00 am

One of the more complicated aspects of the National Hockey League’s Collective Barganing Agreement is actually the calculation of a team’s cap space. There are so many contributing factors that is easy to misunderstand. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I do believe I have a fair understanding; so I hope to be able to articulate it so others might find it informative. There will be aspects of cap calculation that I omit, either because I plan to cover it at a later point in time, or simply because I have to draw the line somewhere. Let’s start at …

Flyers must go all in for Weber

By Marcello De Feo
Posted on 06/09/2012 at 10:50 am

Caveat: It would take a lot to get Shea Weber out of Nashville as the Predators will do everything in their power to keep him. But that does not mean that the Flyers shouldn’t try their damnedest to get him. The fact of the matter is that Weber is an elite defensive talent that is the biggest missing piece standing between the Flyers and a Stanley Cup parade. Few players could realistically fill the void left by Chris Pronger. Weber is one of the select few and is just entering the prime of his career to boot. What reason do …

Should have been in orange and black! (Image via nhlsnipers.com)

Coping with a Long-Cupless City

By Estebomb
Posted on 06/07/2012 at 2:00 pm

Are you tired of hearing about Flyers West yet? Too bad! It’s frankly the only thing we can write about at this point, unless you’re clamoring for a piece on how good Claude Giroux is at drinking games (hint: this is the wrong site for that sort of news). So here we are again, on the verge of watching former beloved members of the Orange and Black holding the Stanley Cup. It’s happened before and it will happen again. The LA Kings are the new Carolina Hurricanes: a team featuring former prominent Flyers that you really don’t mind seeing win …

CBA 101 Part 3: Slide Contracts

By Kevin Christmann
Posted on 06/04/2012 at 11:00 am

Per the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, every NHL team is permitted to have 50 players under contract in their entire organization; including players that are not with the parent club. This was the reason that the Flyers were required to include Jon Kalinski in the trade for Pavel Kubina. The Flyers already had 50 contracts, so they could not acquire Kubina without shedding a contract first. However, it is possible to have more than 50 players under contract if you have what are called “slide contracts,” as they do not count towards the 50-contract limit. In the event that an 18 …

Why I’m Rooting for the Kings, and Why You Should, Too

By Hal G
Posted on 05/31/2012 at 1:00 pm

Image Courtesy of BroadStreetHockey.com I am a Flyers fan. I bleed orange and black. My two favorite players of all time are Rod Brind’Amour and Kevin Dineen. I hope that one day, my Flyers will hoist the Stanley Cup. Regardless of that fact, I have been on the Los Angeles Kings train all playoffs long. Whether you listen to our podcast or not (free plug!), I not only picked the Kings to upset the Canucks and Blues, but I chose them as my favorite to win it all. So, the natural question is, why do I root for the Kings …

Jonathan Quick and Martin Brodeur, courtesy of Getty Images

Flyers West Update: Youth vs. Vet in Net

By Kim Pollock
Posted on 05/31/2012 at 11:00 am

With all of the different storylines weaved into the Stanley Cup Finals between the Los Angeles Kings and the New Jersey Devils, it’s easy for some to fall through the cracks and not get much attention. But one storyline that seems to have gone with little mention is a major one — the opposites at opposite ends of the ice. The Kings and Devils have both had surprising playoff runs, and a number of different contributors to their success. Two huge factors have been the goaltending of Jonathan Quick for the Kings (12-2-0 with a 1.58 goals-against and a save …

Hockey Fan Bias: We’re all guilty

By Kevin Christmann
Posted on 05/30/2012 at 12:00 pm

I consider myself a highly rational person; probably too rational in fact. I’m sure there are plenty of people that dislike me because of it. I’m sure sometimes my girlfriend doesn’t want me to rationalize everything, but rather just sympathize with her. It’s a flaw of mine. Subsequently, I do everything in my power to remove any bias I may have when drawing conclusions about the sport I love. It’s a difficult thing to do however. Human beings will almost always have some inherent level of bias. Never is that more apparent than in the sports world. Due to the …

Tell us Zoltar, who should I put all my money on in Vegas? (image via backtotheeighties.net)

2012 Stanley Cup Final Staff Predictions

By Estebomb
Posted on 05/29/2012 at 1:00 pm

No matter that trying to divine the finishing point or the winner of any league and any series is like trying to squeeze water from a stone, it’s basically the responsibility of any sports-based web site to wrench predictions out of its crack staff for the playoffs. We here at Flyers Faithful certainly aren’t above it! Below are our staff predictions for the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals between the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils. Leave your own predictions in the comments below!

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Flyers West Update: Gagne Nearing A Return?

By Kim Pollock
Posted on 05/28/2012 at 1:00 pm

There has been a flurry of activity surrounding Simon Gagne over the last two weeks. First, it was announced that he had been cleared for contact – terrific news after he’d been suffering from concussion-related issues over the past five months. Then, it was announced that he had participated in a full practice with his teammates. Most recently, it was announced that Gagne will make the trip to New Jersey with the rest of the Kings for the start of the Stanley Cup Finals. So what does this all mean for Gagne, who hasn’t played a game since sustaining a …

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