Earlier this week, we asked you where outdoor hockey should go next. We got a ton of really great responses, but one that came up a few times was Happy Valley!
Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby held nothing back in a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Penguins star gave a candid response about an incident with Philadelphia Flyers center Claude Giroux during the teams playoff battle...
Flyers 19-year old Rookie Sean Couturier did an outstanding job of shutting down Pittsburgh's star Evgeni Malkin in the first round of the postseason.
The two were matched up against each other throughout the series and Couturier has got the better of Malkin early in the series, setting the tone helping the Flyers jump out to a 3-0 lead in the series...
In that splendidly spectacular 8-4 rout of the Penguins. Score two for the home side.
Said Roenick, to Mike Gill on Monday, when asked if the Flyers are in the Penguins' heads after Sunday's winner, that bumped their Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series edge to three games to none:
"Absolutely...
Jaromir Jagr has expressed his intentions to return to the NHL next season, he just isn't sure where he wants to return.
Jagr told reporters: "I know I'm going to play. I don't know where I'm going to play, but it doesn't matter because I love the game," he said on Wednesday
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Ilya Bryzgalov will enter the playoffs as confident as ever after having one of his best months in his career in March. The Flyers are going to need his best effort to advance against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Lisa Hillary from CSN in Philadelphia joined the Sports Bash to preview tonight's game one live from Pittsburgh and gives you a look inside the Flyers locker room as they get ready for this
We now know it will be the Flyers and the Penguins in the first round of the NHL playoffs.
The two teams will face-off in a meaningless game on Saturday, but will one of these teams try to prove a point after the last time they met resulted in fights, words exchanged and bad blood...
Daniel Briere is sidelined indefinitely because of an upper back contusion and Nicklas Grossmann will be out for seven-to-10 days, both as a result of hits from Penguins forward Joe Vitale.