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Read Ready For The Bigs

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 [...]

Show Your Support For Wayne Simmonds

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 [...]

Jaromir Jagr And Philly A Right Fit

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Jaromir Jagr And Philly A Right Fit

By Dustin Leed (@D_LEED) After attending the Flyers opening of Training Camp and sitting in on the Jaromir Jagr press conference, a couple things became very evident to me. The first thing: Jagr is not Nikolay Zherdev and these situations don’t have a lot in common. Second: the Flyers view Jagr as a big-time UFA [...]

Flyers Rookie Game Preview

Flyers Rookie Game Preview

By Dustin Leed The Flyers Rookie camp will conclude this evening when the Flyers host the Washington Capitals in a preseason “Rookie Game” scrimmage, presented by Smoothie King. The game will take place at the Wells Fargo Center at 5 p.m. Below I threw together a quick breakdown on some of the players who attended [...]

Western Conference 2011-12 NHL Predictions

Western Conference 2011-12 NHL Predictions

Anthony Mingioni, Todd Cordell and Dustin Leed have teamed up to bring you their individual Western Conference predictions for the 2011-12 season. See the madness below — Eastern Conference predictions can be seen here: http://thehockeyguys.net/?p=3601   Dustin Leed 1. Vancouver Canucks – Losing Ryan Kesler to start the season will hurt, the ‘Nucks are still [...]

Wheel, Snipe, Party

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Wheel, Snipe, Party

By Dustin Leed If you’re plugged in to the hockey world and its off-ice lifestyle, you probably won’t need to look up what Gongshow® is and what it stands for. You’ll already know that it’s worn by over hundreds of NHL players. And you’ll probably already know it represents the hockey culture and the lifestyle [...]

Eastern Conference 2011-12 NHL Predictions

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Eastern Conference 2011-12 NHL Predictions

Anthony Mingioni, Todd Cordell and Dustin Leed have teamed up to bring you their individual Eastern Conference predictions for the 2011-12 season. See the madness below — Western Conference predictions will be posted next week. Dustin Leed 1. Pittsburgh Penguins – Let’s face it: Sidney Crosby will play, and he will be good, surprise-surprise. Even [...]

Zac Rinaldo’s World

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Zac Rinaldo’s World

By Dustin Leed It’s not often that you see the words skill, calm and composed in the same sentence with Zac Rinaldo. But you may be surprised at the Zac Rinaldo you see at this year’s Flyers training camp. He’s still crazy, he’s still an entertainer, he’s still as tough as they come and the [...]

Flyers to Host Washington Capitals in Rookie Game on September 15

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Flyers to Host Washington Capitals in Rookie Game on September 15

The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that they will host the Washington Capitals in a preseason “Rookie Game” scrimmage, presented by Smoothie King, on Thursday, September 15. The game will take place at the Wells Fargo Center at 5 PM. The game will mark the conclusion of a Flyers rookie and prospect camp held prior to [...]

Let’s Make A Deal… How About Another?

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Let’s Make A Deal… How About Another?

So don’t mind the silly editing errors in my story… Not sure what happened there. Anyway, check out my column featured in this morning’s newspaper. By Dustin Leed Sports Writer Out with the old; in with the new. Or something like that. On June 20, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren made it clear to reporters [...]