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Rangers-Flyers Rivalry Heats Up
By Christopher Decker (@HockeyGuy_Chris) After Flyers Chairman, Ed Snider, took the stage and talked up his team and his city at the Winter Classic official announcement in Philadelphia on Monday, it was Glen Sather’s turn to shed light on the other team that also happened to be part of the new NHL tradition – the [...]
Detroit’s Final Roster is Almost Set
By Rhys Richards (@RREsq) The questions surrounding the final forward spot on Detroit’s pro squad appear to be answered. Wings management needed Sunday’s game and the gruesome ankle injury sustained by Jan Mursak to all but rubber stamp Cory Emmerton and one of Fabian Brunnstrom and Ryan Johnson making the team. For fans that did [...]
Read Ready For The Bigs
By Dustin Leed (@D_LEED) My Matt Read piece featured on The Fourth Period with exclusive quotes from Read, Peter Laviolette and Chris Pryor. Read talks to me about his choice to choose Philly, what he learned in Adirondack, his reaction to the Mike Richards and Jeff Carter trades and what he must to do earn [...]
CBA \ Ian Laperriere \ LTIR \ Paul Holmgren
More Cap Compliancy Craziness
By: Tyler J. Altemose (@HockeyGuyTy) The Flyers are a team that perennially operate toward the very top of the NHL’s upper limit. Given the various complexities within the CBA, it can make for very confusing situations. One such situation was being discussed between myself and Eric, a contributing writer for Broad Street Hockey. He wrote [...]
Philadelphia Flyers Cut 17
By David Strehle NHL Hot Stove Managing Editor The Philadelphia Flyers announced that they have made their second round of training camp roster cuts today, cutting 17 players and lowering the present roster count to 38 players. The following 17 players were sent back to the Phantoms: Jason Akeson (F), Marc-Andre Bourdon (D), Tyler Brown (F), Cullen Eddy (D), Shane [...]
CBA \ Hyka \ Tomas Hyka
The Status of Tomas Hyka
NOTE: I take full responsibility in my oversight to crediting Broad Street Hockey in this circumstance. I in no way intended any sort of ‘plagiarism’ in my piece. I conducted all of my own research for the piece listed below and apologize to Travis and those at Broad Street Hockey for the situation. By Tyler [...]
Show Your Support For Wayne Simmonds
We all know what happened in the hockey world tonight and our sport took a bad hit. On top of the game of hockey, society took a hit, too. I wanted to set up a platform that shows some support for Wayne Simmonds after what went down tonight in London. I thought it would be [...]
Carl Hagelin \ John Tortorella \ Marc Staal \ Michael Sauer \ New York Rangers \ Tim Erixon \ Training Camp
Recap: Rangers Training Camp
By Christopher Decker (@HockeyGuy_Chris) Going in to New York Rangers training camp, players understood the rugged, harsh, puke-inducing skating drills that Coach John Tortorella would be bestowing upon them. After all, it’s one of the fiery coach’s trademarks. A handful of players were familiar with the grind, and of course, a handful of [...]
Brendan Smith \ Cory Emmerton \ Detroit Red Wings \ Fabian Brunnstrom \ Jimmy Howard \ Tomas Tatar
The Battle for Detroit’s Final Forward Spot
By Rhys Richards (@RREsq) With the first Red Wings preseason game in the books, the combination of intrigue and pain that is every preseason game is back. Detroit lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight 3-2. Several up-and-coming prospects will not make the team, but fans saw glimpses of a promising future in Hockeytown from players such [...]


