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The Shea Weber Negotiations: Holmgren vs. Poile

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The Shea Weber Negotiations: Holmgren vs. Poile

By Charlie O’Connor (@THG_Charlie) Let the staring contest commence. With an offer sheet for Shea Weber now on the table, Philadelphia Flyers GM Paul Holmgren and Nashville Predators GM David Poile are locked in a game of chicken, with one player’s contract, the immediate future of one franchise, and the long-term health of another franchise [...]

Weber Watch 2012: What If The Predators Can’t Pay Up?

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Weber Watch 2012: What If The Predators Can’t Pay Up?

By: Tyler J. Altemose (@TJamesAltemose) Many questions surround the recent offer sheet tendered to the Nashville Predators by the Philadelphia Flyers. But one of the more intriguing questions is, what happens if the Predators match the Flyers offer but can’t pay Shea Weber? The Nashville Predators are a small market team. Forbes magazine ranked the [...]

Flyers Sign Weber to $110 Million Offer Sheet

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Flyers Sign Weber to $110 Million Offer Sheet

  By: Tyler J. Altemose (@TJamesAltemose) Late last night TSN’s Darren Dreger reported that the have Flyers signed defenseman Shea Weber of the Nashville Predators to a 14-year offer sheet worth over $100 million (full story from TSN here). The 6’ 4”, 232-pound restricted free agent recorded 19 goals and 30 assists last season with [...]

Phantoms Coach Paterson Fired

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Phantoms Coach Paterson Fired

  By: Tyler J. Altemose (@TJamesAltemose) The Flyers announced Tuesday afternoon via press release that they have released head coach Joe Paterson of his duties just one and a half years after taking over the team. Paterson joined the Phantoms in November 2010 as an assistant coach to then head coach and Flyers assistant general [...]

TheHockeyGuys 2012 NHL Award Results

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TheHockeyGuys 2012 NHL Award Results

Since none of us here, at TheHockeyGuys.net, have the privilege to vote for the real NHL Awards, I thought it would be a great idea if all of the writers on this website made picks for each major award and I posted the results here. There’s an interesting twist in this ballot, though. The writers [...]

The Eric Wellwood Waivers Situation

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The Eric Wellwood Waivers Situation

  By: Tyler J. Altemose (@TJamesAltemose) I want to preface this article by crediting Jen over at Broad Street Hockey for being the first to discuss this matter. She was the first person—or at least the first that I saw—to do it (and besides, there are few people besides her that would even know to [...]

Flyers Would Be Wise to be Proactive in Defensive Acquisition

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Flyers Would Be Wise to be Proactive in Defensive Acquisition

  By Tyler J. Altemose (@TJamesAltemose) The Flyers have suffered a plethora of injuries within their defensive ranks. Chris Pronger is sidelined for the remainder of the season with severe post-concussion syndrome. Andreas Lilja and Erik Gustafsson remain sidelined by injury.  Even Oskars Bartulis remains out for the foreseeable future. Marc-Andre Bourdon and Kevin Marshall, [...]

More Cap Compliancy Craziness

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Philadelphia Flyers: Free Agency 2011

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Philadelphia Flyers: Free Agency 2011

  The shock: Has settled; time to jump right into things in Flyersland. All signs point to Philadelphia, once again, being active on the first day of unrestricted free agency, July 1. Let’s start this piece off with a disclaimer: Besides right here you won’t be reading the name Steven Stamkos or Brad Richards. As [...]

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