Articles by Bill Minchin (258)
#109313114 / gettyimages.com Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ottawa general manager Bryan Murray. Murray was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer over the summer. In an interview the other day he has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his condition is uncureable.
#130536728 / gettyimages.com Hello Flyerdelphia Nation, Welcome to another edition of trivia Wednesday. Last week we did our second installment of Who am I. We had multiple responses throughout all of our social media outlets and here on Flyerdelphia.com. All those who responded were correct with Mikael Renberg.
Twenty-nine years ago, one of the brightest young stars was gone from the NHL sky. Today marks the anniversary of the day we lost our Vezina Trophy-winning netminder, Pelle Lindbergh. As hard as he played on the ice was also as hard as he played off of it.
Steven Stamkos, Ben Bishop and company are rolling. Since losing 7-2 to Minnesota on October 25th, the Tampa Bay Lightning have won six straight games and lead the Atlantic Division by two points over Montreal. Stamkos scored two more goals on Sunday in the team's 4-3 win over Detriot giving him a team leading 10 […]
#458312194 / gettyimages.com The injury bug continues to run through the NHL during the early portion of the 2014-2015 season. Chicago forward Patrick Sharp is expected to miss at least a month after sustaining a lower body injury during Tuesday's 5-0 victory over the Canadiens.
It's time for another installment of Who Am I? First, here are the answers for last week' Flyers nicknames questions. 1. Deuces Wild 2. Boxcar 3. Dan Kordic, Daniel Lacroix and Scott Daniels 4. Darryl Stanley and Dave Brown 5. Eric Lindros, Brent Fedyk and Mark Recchi 6. Freddy the Fog 7. Andrea Dupont 8. […]
#458123750 / gettyimages.com In today's piece we will take a look the first month of the NHL season. There have been some hot starts by teams and individual players. There have also been some poor starts by others. First up will be team statistics through the first month.
#57396139 / gettyimages.com As if losing prized free agent Paul Stasny to a shoulder injury wasn't enough, the St. Louis Blues found out two more of their top forwards will be joining him on the injury report. Capatain David Backes and T.J Oshie both suffered concussions in Tuesday's game against the Stars. […]
#161508247 / gettyimages.com After a penalty free first stanza from both teams, it was a revolving door to the box. The Flyers went 0 for 2 with the man advantage. Tampa went 2 for 5 on the powerplay. Steven Stamkos scored two goals and added an assist on what was the eventual game winner […]
Wayne Simmonds braces for a hit against Tampa Bay. Photo courtesy of (Amy Irvin/38Photography) On the heels of their third straight win, the Philadelphia Flyers (4-3-2) will head to the sunshine state to take on Steven Stamkos and the Tampa Bay Lightning (6-3-1). This is the first of three meetings between the two clubs and […]