Sean Couturier has room to grow in many areas

The Lockout – Who wins, who loses?

By Marc Siciliano
Posted on 10/10/2012 at 3:00 pm

Now that games have officially been cancelled, it’s no longer possible to think of the Flyers roster as a whole. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of room to speculate how the time away from the Wells Fargo Center will affect each individual piece of it. So who stands to benefit the most and the least from the lockout on the Flyers roster? Sean Couturier and Brayden Schenn A package deal based on their status amongst the Flyers forwards as baby-faced rookies, these two budding forwards actually might be able to gain a lot from their time in the …

The Downside of the “Big” Guys Playing for the “Small” Club

By Kim Pollock
Posted on 10/04/2012 at 11:00 am

As the chances of the lockout coming to an end anytime soon get smaller and smaller, NHL players are flocking to other teams left and right. Some are going overseas to play in European leagues, while others have the opportunity to play for their team’s AHL affiliate, such as a few of the Flyers. I touched briefly on the downside of having NHL players joining other teams abroad in last week’s Point/Counterpoint, but now I’m going to focus on the effect it may have on players in the minors. The AHL is a stepping stone, the last stop before a …

Short Shifts: Couturier on the point?

By Marc Siciliano
Posted on 10/03/2012 at 3:33 pm

With the lockout basically in full effect and the two sides farther apart philosophically than our US Presidential nominees, the National Hockey League and its respective talking points have been all over the map — both in a literal and figurative sense. Because of this, these posts will be focusing on a wide array of topics with quick bits to get you in, out, and back on the bench in 30 seconds or less. What’s the Point? I wasn’t there, but it’s well documented that Sean Couturier was manning the point in the Phantoms’ Tuesday afternoon exhibition loss to the …

CBA 101: Why isn’t Matt Read playing with the Phantoms?

By Kevin Christmann
Posted on 10/01/2012 at 1:00 pm

I’ve opened up CBA 101 to mailbag questions as I had more or less covered the critical topics with respect to the, now expired, Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). I had received a question about NHL player eligibility for the AHL during the lockout from reader Will Heineman, and then more specifically, from reader Tom Ciaverelli, “why isn’t Matt Read playing with the Phantoms?” The answer ultimately comes back to waiver eligibility, which I covered in my very first CBA 101 article. Without re-hashing the entire contents of my article on waiver eligibility, the crux of the topic comes down to A) when a player …

Podcast: Episode 41, Eurotrip with Bill Meltzer

By Estebomb
Posted on 09/25/2012 at 12:00 pm

On this edition of the Flyers Faithful podcast, Steve and Hal talk to Bill Meltzer from Hockeybuzz and NHL.com about the players who are going over to Europe and down to the minors during the lockout, including Jakub Voracek, Claude Giroux, Brayden Schenn, and Sean Couturier among others. Flyers Faithful Podcast Episode 41 You can also download it from iTunes here! If you’re enjoying the show via iTunes we would very much appreciate it if you could rate it and leave a review on there! We’re also on Stitcher if that’s how you listen to your podcasts! If there’s any other way you listen to podcasts …

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