Tag: Philadelphia Flyers

Categories
Hockey Feed

Trouble brewing between Tony DeAngelo and the Flyers.

Eric Hartline/USA TODAY Sports

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.

Categories
Hockey Feed

Philadelphia Flyers first round pick headed to free agency.

Philadelphia Flyers/NHL

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.

Categories
Hockey Feed

Carson Briere announces his next move

TMZ Sports

The son of NHL great and interim Philadelphia Flyers general manager Daniel Briere found himself once again in hot water, and he’s now attempting to to set things back in order for himself.

Carson Briere was dismissed from the Mercyhurst University men’s hockey team, a Division 1 team in the NCAA, after surveillance video footage emerged of his having pushed an unoccupied wheelchair down the stairs of Sullivan’s Pub in Erie, Pennsylvania. He would be charged with second-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. 

He would offer the following apology: 

“I am deeply sorry for my behavior on Saturday. There is no excuse for my actions, and I will do whatever I can to make up for this serious lack of judgment.”

And while he’s certainly now considered a pariah, he’s still attempting to salvage his playing career after having scored 23 goals and 36 assists in his time with Mercyhurst. According to a report released earlier today, he’s entered the NCAA Division I transfer portal. 


His dismissal from Mercyhurst is not the first time that Briere has been kicked off a team. The same thing happened in 2019 with his removal from Arizona State’s hockey club for what was described as a violation of team rules. 

“I wasn’t taking hockey seriously,” Briere told the Times-News in 2021 about his time in Arizona. “That was something that wasn’t going to work out, and I wanted to find somewhere I could play my style of hockey.”

Categories
Hockey Feed

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

Chase Agnello-Dean/NHLI/Getty

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.

Categories
Hockey Feed

Fan crashes penalty box with Tie Domi 22 years ago!

Sportsnet

It seems just like yesterday, but this will forever be one of the more iconic confrontational moments not only in hockey but in sports period between a fan and a player. 

22 years ago, a fan behind the penalty box during a game at the then-named First Union Center in Philadelphia was verbally jousting with Toronto Maple Leafs hard nosed forward Tie Domi, who was currently in the sin bin. Domi reached behind him and squirted the glass the fan was behind with his water bottle, leading to all hell breaking loose: 

The fan, who was identified as 36-year old Chris Falcone, lunged at Domi over the glass, which would eventually give way. Into the box spilled Falcone, instantly triggering a scuffle between the two until linesman Kevin Collins was able to help break things up. 

“That hasn’t happened to me since I was 15 years old in juniorhockey. It was a mascot,” Domi said afterward. “Hey, that’s old-timehockey. It was perfect.”

“They threw stuff at me. Once was enough,” Domi continued. “After the second one, I told the guy in the penalty box that after onemore I was going to squirt water. So I squirted water. I didn’tplan on fighting anybody.”

Categories
Hockey Feed

Breaking: Flyers changing home/away uniforms next season!

Zuma Press

According to a report from NHL jersey and logo specialist Chris Creamer of SportsLogos.net, the Philadelphia Flyers will be changing both their home and road uniforms for the 2023-24 season. Creamer reports that the Flyers will be throwing it back a bit, using a design that’s very similar to the uniform the team wore in the 1980s and majority of the 1990s.

More info from Creamer:

Starting with the colours, sources tell SportsLogos.Net that the Flyers will be bringing back their original shade of orange, which is a bit lighter than what the club is currently using (see the side-by-side comparison below). The Flyers had used their original orange from their 1967-68 expansion season, through their two Stanley Cup Championships, right up until the NHL started standardizing colours league-wide in 1999. The Flyers have used their current shade of orange since that 1999-2000 switch.

– Chris Creamer

The home orange and road white uniform designs will be a throwback to the style used for a quarter century from 1982 to 2007 — the ones with very wide stripes down each arm, made famous by former Flyers such as Eric Lindros, Rod Brind’Amour, Mark Recchi, Jeremy Roenick, and Ron Hextall. These uniforms all originally used that aforementioned shade of orange that the Flyers will be flipping back to.

There will be some changes, of course. I’m told the black trim that borders those wide sleeve stripes will not be returning, and the single orange or black stripe (depending on the jersey) that appears before the patch of black near the cuffs will also be gone.

– Chris Creamer

Of course, the new uniform will be on the modern Adidas cut with that big collar thing and an NHL shield in there; for ease of Photoshopping, I simply used photos from the ’90s for this mockup and edited where necessary.

Note: there will not be a black uniform; there will not be an alternate uniform for the Flyers in 2023-24. Just the home orange and road white. Aside from the change to the shade of orange, the logo will remain exactly the same (and rightfully so!).

– Chris Creamer

So there you have it… a new twist on an old design, which personally I think is just fine. To me, the Flyers have one of the most recognizable jerseys and logos in the sport and I’d be very wary of messing with it. Thankfully, it seems like the team’s braintrust recognizes this and isn’t interested in creating the latest fad or trend with a brand new look.