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Trouble brewing between Tony DeAngelo and the Flyers.

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As far as being a competitive team is concerned, for all intents and purposes the 2022-23 National Hockey League season is already over for the Philadelphia Flyers. The team has been well out of playoff contention for quite some time now, but in spite of that the disaster that has been this current season for the Flyers appears to be ongoing.

Over the course of the last few games the Flyers have made the curious decision of making veteran defenseman Tony DeAngelo a healthy scratch, in fact they have now done so for 3 consecutive games. For a healthy and a competitive player like DeAngelo that has to feel like a bit of a slap in the face, especially considering these kind of moves are usually reserved for when a coach is trying to send a message.

If there is a message being sent here though the Flyers don’t appear to be interested in communicating it to DeAngelo, with John Tortorella confirming on Sunday that he hasn’t even so much as talked to the player as of late.

DeAngelo of course has a history of being somewhat of a problem child with some of his previous teams so it isn’t exactly shocking to see him disciplined in this fashion. What is surprising though is the apparent lack of communication towards a player that the Flyers will still have under contract come next season. Former Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher signed DeAngelo to a 2 year deal in the summer of 2022, meaning that he will still be on the books for the Flyers come next season at a cap hit of $5 million.

Alienating one of your regular defenseman so late in the season seems like a questionable move given that context, especially when talking about a player as volatile as DeAngelo.

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Philadelphia Flyers first round pick headed to free agency.

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The Philadelphia Flyers are set to let one of their former first round draft selections walk away as a free agent.

On Saturday night, National Hockey League insider Elliotte Friedman reported that 2018 first round pick (19th overall) Jay O’Brien would not be signed by the Flyers after another season at Boston University, leaving O’Brien eligible to sign with any team in the NHL willing to offer him a contract.

“The Flyers and the player had to make a decision to sign and I have heard that the decision has been made,” revealed Friedman on Hockey Night in Canada. “The Flyers will not sign him and that allows O’Brien to test free agency. He’s 23 years old and he can pick which team or organization he wants to play for.”

Although typically a team that allows a player to walk to free agency gets nothing in return, that will not be the case in this particular scenario for the Flyers. As per the rules of the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement, because O’Brien was a first round pick the Flyers will be compensated with a slightly lower draft pick at the upcoming NHL draft.

“The Flyers as a result will get a second round pick in the upcoming draft,” confirmed Friedman. “But O’Brien will not be a Flyer.”

Only time will tell if O’Brien is offered an NHL contract, but perhaps the man that drafted him will be among those to show interest. It was former Flyers general manager Ron Hextall that drafted O’Brien in 2018, and as we know he now serves in the role of general manager for Flyer’s intrastate rivals the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Jeremy Roenick reveals a completely insane story from his NHL rookie season.

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Former National Hockey League player turned NHL analyst Jeremy Roenick has gotten himself into some hot water as of late for comments he has made publicly, and while you may have expected him to learn from those mistakes he may have just done so once again.

In a recent clip for the Clearing the Crease podcast, released by Bodog Canada, Roenick describes a completely insane story from his National Hockey League rookie season, one in which several people may have been hurt.

According to Roenick, he once t-boned a car after running a red light on his way to an airport in Canada, sending the car hurtling into the living room of a nearby home. While you would expect that this would have led to serious consequences for Roenick at the time, it sounds like he managed to escape scott-free.

“Trying to get to the airport I t-boned a car cause I ran a red light running to the airport,” revealed Roenick on the podcast. “Absolutely t-boned the car and she went off the road into the living room of a house. The cops told me ‘Just get out of here JR, you’ve got a game tomorrow get to the airport.’ That’s Canada for you, t-bone a car, never hear about it again.”

It’s hard to believe that Roenick could have caused so much damage and so much chaos and not have been reprimanded in any fashion for his actions, but that is how he tells it. Certainly the victims of this incident might feel aggrieved if they catch wind of Roenick’s retelling, that is assuming of course that the story Roenick is telling here is true.