Kimmo Timonen
Embed from Getty Images The Flyers announced a special alumni game would be held in early February just a few months ago in December. Given the success of the alumni game during the Winter Classic festivities in 2012, the game was almost an instant sell-out. That game will take place on Friday night at […]
Embed from Getty Images Slated for Leap Day 2016, the NHL trade deadline is just one month away as the game schedule hits its All-Star Break hiatus. While the Philadelphia Flyers are not hopelessly out of the race to earn a playoff spot – five points behind the Pittsburgh Penguins (with one game in hand) […]
1) If there was ever a doubt as to how much Sean Couturier means to the Philadelphia Flyers, the second period of Thursday's game in Pittsburgh was a good case in point about how much the player's absence is felt when he is not in the lineup. Even if Couturier had been in the Flyers' […]
Embed from Getty Images It's been a week since Ron Hextall completed his fifth trade on the path to freeing up cap space and starting to help the Flyers turn the corner from building the future to watching it progress to the NHL and form what is hoped to become a contender. But in […]
On Wednesday, the Flyers traded impending unrestricted free agent defenseman Luke Schenn and seldom-used veteran forward Vincent Lecavalier to the Los Angeles Kings for a 2016 third-round draft pick and 23-year-old center Jordan Weal. The Flyers agreed to retain 50 percent of both Lecavalier's ($4.5 million cap hit) and Schenn's ($3.6 million) contracts. The arrangement of this […]
Embed from Getty Images Wednesday was Ed Snider’s 83rd birthday. GM Ron Hextall gave him a pretty good gift: cap relief. Hextall pulled off another trade, sending Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn to the Los Angeles Kings acquiring 23-year-old forward Jordan Weal and a 2016 third-round draft pick. That marked Hextall’s fifth trade involving a […]
Kimmo Timonen was not the type of hockey player who drew attention upon himself. He was not a flashy player or a marquee attraction, but was nevertheless an indispensible part of his teams. For his NHL career, Timonen played 1,108 regular season games (117 goals, 571 points) and 105 playoff games (four goals, 35 points) […]
For eight years, Flyers fans were treated to the consistent defensive talent of Kimmo Timonen. He was a mainstay on the blue line, a warrior. He never missed a game unless he absolutely had to. Which is what made last August so scary. Timonen had played through everything you could throw at the human […]
Everybody’s talking about the kids. Sam Morin, Shayne Gostisbehere, Robert Hagg, Travis Sanheim and now Ivan Provorov make up a group dubbed the “Fab Five.” These defensemen are the future of Flyers hockey in a coming year. Might be this one, might not. The Flyers had to prepare for patchwork while also […]
Love him or hate him, Dan Carcillo was one of the members of the most memorable Flyers team in the last decade. On Thursday, Carcillo became the fourth member of the 2010 Flyers to announce his retirement this offseason, joining Kimmo Timonen, Danny Briere and Simon Gagne. But Carcillo did it in the most interesting […]
