FLYERS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ROUNDUP

* Braydon Coburn notched a goal and an assist and Matt Read earned an assist on a Kyle Turris goal in Team Canada’s 6-1 romp over Italy yesterday at the 2014 IIHF World Championships in Minsk, Belarus. Flyers defenseman skated 19:01 worth of ice time despite serving three separate tripping penalties. Coburn was plus-one for the day.

* Now-former Flyers defen

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It looks like Erik Gustafsson’s Philadelphia Flyers career is over. The 25-year-old restricted free agent defenseman has signed a contract with Kontinental Hockey League team Avangard Omsk. The signing was reported by Russian hockey reporter Igor Erenko of Sport.Ru and also confirmed by Swedish national newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen.

Gustafsson is coming off a disappointing 2013-14 seaso

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Flyers at World Championships: Thursday Roundup

* Four Flyers-affiliated players will be in action today at the IIHF World Championships in Minsk, Belarus. Team Canada, featuring Brayden Schenn, Matt Read and Braydon Coburn will take on Denmark, featuring Phantoms defenseman Oliver Lauridsen. Having already been victimized by a massive upset in a shootout loss to France, the Canadians can ill-a

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WEDNESDAY QUICK HITS

* Swedish newspaper Expressen reported yesterday that the Flyers, among other teams, are scouting forward Dennis Rasmussen at the IIHF World Championships. I blogged about the team’s interest in the player in late March. At the time, the Flyers had two scouts watching Rasmussen during the SHL playoff semifinals. According to the Expressen report by Mattias Ek, the Vancouver

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TUESDAY QUICK HITS

* Flyers prospect Taylor Leier had an assist in a losing cause as the Portland Winterhawks dropped the seventh and deciding game of the Western Hockey League finals last night to the Edmonton Oil Kings by a 4-2 score. Leier assisted on Brendan Leipzic’s third period power play goal that brought the Hawks back within two goals. The key turning point of the game came when Curti

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ASSESSING HARTNELL’S 2013-14 season

Flyers left winger Scott Hartnell has simultaneously been one of the team’s most popular and yet divisive players over the course of his seven seasons in Philadelphia. He has always been a streaky player offensively and, in other aspects of the game, can be rather unpredictable.

Following Hartnell’s career year in 2011-12, the Flyers signed him to a six-y

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SUNDAY QUICK HITS

* Three Flyers-affiliated players will be in action today at the 2014 IIHF World Championships in Minsk Belarus. In one of today’s two matches featuring likely medal round teams, Flyers defenseman Erik Gustafsson and the rest of defending gold medalist Tre Kronor will take on former Flyers right winger Jaromir Jagr and the Czech Republic. Phantoms forward Marcel Noebels and Te

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All Flyers players at the 2014 World Championships in Belarus will be in action today. In yesterday’s tournament-opening games:

FRANCE 3 – CANADA 2 (SO)

Last year, France pulled off a monumental upset by beating Russia in a preliminary round game. Yesterday, the French team came back from a 2-1 deficit in the third period to force overtime and prevail via shootout against highly favored Cana

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BEGIN IN BELARUS

The 2014 IIHF World Championships start today in Minsk with four games: Canada vs. France (9:45 a.m. EDT at Chizhovka Arena), Russia vs. Switzerland (9:45 a.m. EDT at Minsk Arena), Czech Republic vs Slovakia (1:45 p.m. EDT at Chizhovka Arena) and USA vs. Belarus (1:45 p.m. EDT at Minsk Arena).

Team USA’s game against host team Belarus will be televised l

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Once the formalities of introducing Paul Holmgren as the Philadelphia Flyers’ new club president and Ron Hextall as general manager were completed at yesterday’s press conference, the two men each had separate off-podium media availability. It has been my experience over the years that there is more to be learned during these sessions than during the question and answer period of the main press co

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