If a team wants to go deep in the playoffs they have to make the other team’s best players beat them. Patrick Kaleta is not one of those players. Scoring the first –and only — goal in the series, Kaleta gave his team a 1-0 series lead against the higher-seeded Flyers as Ryan Miller stopped all 35 Flyers’ shots for a 1-0 Buffalo win in Game 1 of this Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series. The first period was frantic and fast-paced, but the score resulted in a scoreless tie. Even though the shot count was tied at 10, the Flyers spent a majority …
The good, the bearded, and the fundraisers
You like the Flyers, right? Of course you do. That’s why you’re here. I bet you’re a good person too. As a fan of the Flyers, giving has become second nature to you. It’s inevitable, given all of the countless charities run through the organization. This year’s Flyers Wives Fight For Lives Carnival may already be a distant memory but the giving season is far from over. Now is the time to dig deep to help the Flyers and Dancin’ Shawny raise money for Flyers Charities through Beard-A-Thon. So, what is Beard-A-Thon? Let’s get that info straight from the source. …
2011 First round playoff predictions
Penaltykiller EASTERN CONFERENCE Capitals vs Rangers These. teams are more eventually matched that the standings would suggest. They finished close to each other in goals per game, goals against average, PP %, shots against, and save percentage. Both were also in the top ten in PK%. This series could go either way, but I think the Rangers defense and Lundqvist will edge out the Capitals. Rangers in seven. Flyers vs Sabres The Flyers depth will overwhelm the Sabres, but Miller may steal a game or two. Flyers in six. Bruins vs Canadiens Boston beats Montreal in most statistical categories, but …
Atlantic Watch: 4/6-4/12
With only two games this week, the Flyers went 1-0-1 capturing the Atlantic Division title. Although they still aren’t playing their best hockey, the Flyers hung on to second place in the conference for a first-round playoff series against the Buffalo Sabres. With the first game scheduled for tomorrow, the Flyers hope to benefit from having home-ice advantage. Even though they played one of their best periods in the week, the Flyers had only a 1-0 lead going into the second period Friday night in Buffalo. After both teams scored a pair of goals in the middle period, a ridiculous …
The Man Behind the Masks: Fran Drummond
Have you ever drawn or painted something? Have you ever spent countless, tireless hours on a piece of art? Have you ever, after all your hard work, creativity, blood, sweat, and tears had been put down onto a piece of paper felt that feeling of finality or release? Have you ever done that knowing full well that your art was going to be a moving target for pieces of rubber travelling at speeds of over 100 miles an hour? Fran Drummond does this all the time. From his little shop in Langhorne, Pennsylvania he crafts pieces of art that are …
Poll: Western Conference Quarterfinals Predictions
Yesterday we asked you to predict the first round in the Eastern Conference. Today we ask you to predict it for the Western Conference.
RICE & MICE: Coming back from concussion
The playoffs are starting this week. It’s the most exciting time of the year, in my opinion. Coaches are tested and players are pushed to play their limits. I normally hate to write about something that has held so much of the spotlight this season, but the question on so many peoples’ minds (especially the Tampa Bay Lightning) is: will Sidney Crosby finally be cleared for contact and make it back for a postseason run? Truth is, nobody can predict what will happen if he returns to play. That’s perhaps one of the most frustrating aspects of concussions for players, …
Playoff Appetizers
With a long four-day gap between the end of the regular season and the start of what we all hope will be another deep run, I thought I’d get everybody fought up with a couple selections from the video vault. First, it was almost 15 years ago when the Flyers opened up the 1996 postseason as the top overall seed in the East. Their opponent, the Tampa Bay Lightning who were making their initial playoff foray. Sparks did fly and Terry Murray’s club made it look easy…if not a little too easy with a Game 1 romp by a 7-3 …
The Difference A Year Makes
It was a year ago today that the Flyers won game 82 in dramatic fashion to propel themselves into the playoffs. Using the momentum from the win on the last day of the season, and benefitting from other outcomes in the postseason (Montreal beating Washington and Pittsburgh), the Flyers found themselves in the Stanley Cup Finals. Although they didn’t win it all, last year’s team was one of the most exciting Flyers’ teams to watch in recent memory. Sitting at the bottom of the league in December, the Flyers looked as though they were going to miss the playoffs for the second time in four …
Sergei Bobrovsky’s New Mask
Before Fran Drummond, the artist responsible for the mask above as well as quite a few others in the NHL nowadays, had gotten this mask done I was afforded the opportunity to sit down with him and talk with him about this particular mask as well as a lot of other topics. There will be a full piece on him coming soon, but this is what he had to say about this particular mask when all that had been done were the sketches of what you see above (I will post the pictures of the sketches later): “One side has …