According to TSN, the NHL will approve the revised contract between free agent superstar Ilya Kovalchuk and the New Jersey Devils. The original (and unprecedented) 17-year contract that the league rejected is now a 15-year deal worth $100 million. Ironically, Kovy will have a $6.66 million cap hit. The league has been scrambling in [...]
Earlier this morning, Tim Panaccio of CSN tweeted that former Pittsburgh Penguin right winger Bill Guerin was “working out in Flyer attire. Tells CSNPhilly.com he hopes to get tryout offer.” It figures that this news came right after I posted that the Flyers were unlikely to alter the roster before training camp, but I [...]
As the days and weeks wind down before training camp opens in September, the list of available free agents begins to dwindle down to the underachievers, injury question marks, over-the-hill veterans and occasional diamonds in the rough.
It was announced today that forward Lee Stempniak signed with the Phoenix Coyotes and left winger Tim [...]
The New Jersey Devils held a press conference yesterday where the organization announced that their AHL farm team, the Albany Devils (formerly the Lowell Devils), will play four games at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City next season while their ECHL team, the Trenton Devils, will play one game. Boardwalk Hall was the former home [...]
The Flyers are currently stacked with able centermen in captain Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, Danny Briere, Claude Giroux, and Blair Betts. Briere was signed in 2007 to be the first line center of the future, but to the Flyers luck, Richards and Carter have developed into first line centers themselves.
This has forced Briere [...]
According to TSN, the Pittsburgh Penguins have signed former Flyer Arron Asham to a one-year, $700,000 contract. Asham was a healthy scratch for the Flyers during the beginning of the season but broke into the line-up shortly after. He spent the latter half of the season on the third line with James VanRiemsdyk [...]
The injury bug that hits every NHL team tends to stay hidden during the playoffs, and it isn’t until the offseason that serious injuries become known to the public. Philadelphia Flyers fans were given a bit of bad news yesterday when defenseman Chris Pronger revealed that an injury taken during the second round of [...]
The Flyers announced recently that enforcer Riley Cote has retired as a professional hockey player and will be joining the Adirondack Phantoms as an assistant coach next season. Cote, 28, was a part of the Calder Cup-winning Phantoms team in 2005 and played the following four seasons with the Flyers. Cote has one [...]
The 17-year, $102 million contract between free agent superstar Ilya Kovalchuk and the New Jersey Devils that was rejected by the NHL, has also been rejected by the arbitrator between the NHL and the NHLPA. While there are existing cases in the NHL that could have been used to support Kovalchuk’s contract, the overwhelming [...]
The second Swedish goaltender that I’d like to cover from the Elitserien is someone that I believe will be the face of the organization in three years (and no, Boyer, this picture is not of Boucher again).
Joacim Eriksson
Drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 7th round of the 2008 NHL Draft, Eriksson has lit up [...]
