Bear Hunting Season

The Lulz feature was originally inspired by the lolcats site but features hockey pictures with funny, quirky, ironic or just plain mean captions. This feature should run weekly on Mondays, just to try to make your Monday a little brighter.

2011 second round predictions

Penaltykiller EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington Capitals vs. Tampa Bay Lightning In the regular season Tampa boasted the better offense and powerplay while Washington had the better goals against and save percentage. Although I think the gap is closer since Tampa acquired Roloson.  Both have good penalty kill units, but Tampa has the powerplay advantage. Tampa also had the advantage in shot differential while Washington had the season series. I am going with Washington because they have enough firepower that could explode at any time and their defense and experience give them a bit of advantage. Washington in six. Philadelphia Flyers vs. Boston …

Poll: Conference Semifinals Predictions

For the first time ever all six division winners advance past round one. The only ‘upset’ was fifth seed Nashville defeating 4th seed Anaheim. For once the Conference Finals is truly the battle of the best which could mean four more close and exciting series for hockey fans. Who do you think comes out on top in each match up?

Poll: Flyers Round Two Opponent

The Flyers currently have three possibilities for their for the next round opponent.The Flyers will face the Bruins in the next round if they win their series. If the Canadiens beat the Bruins, the Flyers would face the winner of the Pittsburgh/Tampa Bay series. So who is your ideal opponent for the Flyers?

Win or Go Home

The Lulz feature was originally inspired by the lolcats site but features hockey pictures with funny, quirky, ironic or just plain mean captions. This feature should run weekly on Mondays, just to try to make your Monday a little brighter.

Counterpunches

The first in an occasional series, in which Flyers Faithful scans the papers of the opposition to see how they’re portraying events. We make no assurance of journalistic integrity here. On Thursday, with the Flyers and Sabres deadlocked at two games apiece, we have our first instance of Buffalo head coach Lindy Ruff going to the papers and complaining about what the other team is complaining about. Ruff generally slips into this mode any time he senses his team is about to lose the actual edge on the ice, which, in his 14 year tenure, has been about a zillion …

Caption this: St. Laurent

I stole this image from Broad Street Hockey because I felt it deserved to be part of a caption contest. So, take your best shot. Comment below with your caption. I’ll go first and get the easy joke out of the way: “So, what does it mean again when I do this with my arms?”

So, it’s come to this

Tonight, Mike Richards felt obliged to apologize on Twitter for a hat he may or may not wear in the future. He said: Ok so today I was given a lot of nice hats from New Era. 3 phillies hats to go along with the other 3 I have but also some other teams. Apologize in advance for wearing the hats. I just like how they fit Richards, captain of the Flyers and a hockey hero in Philadelphia, had to feel uncomfortable about the prospect of wearing one of these hats if it moved him to publicly apologize in advance …

How did Zherdev play tonight?

Nikolay Zherdev saw his first postseason action as a Flyers tonight. He scored the game-winning goal and was named the first star of the game. He also only saw 8:14 of ice time. How do you think he played?