Voracek’s Close Call

Flyers right winger Jakub Voracek is a lucky man. He walked away from a potentially serious car wreck in the Czech Republic yesterday with nary a scratch on his body nor did he cause injury to anyone in the other vehicle that he was unable to brake in time to avoid.

The accident came about because Voracek was driving too fast in his Ferrari. The player admitted fault in

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Updates on Flyers 2010 to 2012 Draft Classes

The quality and depth of a draft class generally takes three to five years to judge accurately. Beyond a team’s first-round pick, a draft can be retroactively deemed a success if at least one or two other players eventually make it to the NHL. Following are updates on the Flyers’ 2010, 2011 and 2012 draft classes.

2010

Among the members of the

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Expect a Bounce-Back from Hartnell in 2013-14

There’s no two ways about it: Scott Hartnell had a miserable 2013 season. He was not in top game shape at the start of the season, sustained a broken foot in the third game of the regular season and struggled mightily to catch up for the next six weeks. By the time he started to look like even a semblance of the player he was during his All-Star se

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Wrapup: Flyers at World Championships

Congratulations to Flyers defenseman Erik Gustafsson and the rest of Tre Kronor for ending Switzerland’s undefeated run at the 2013 IIHF World Championships, capturing the gold medal game by a 5-1 score. The Swedish team had some ups and downs during the preliminary round but peaked at just the right time in the 10-game tournament.

Additional congratulat

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The bronze and gold medal games of the 2013 IIHF World Championships will take play today in Stockholm. In yesterday’s semifinals, Switzerland continued its undefeated run in the tournament with a 3-0 shutout of Team USA while Sweden blanked Finland by an identical score.

The US-Switzerland game was scoreless until midway through regulation, when Nino Niederreiter finally solved John Gibson. Th

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Apologies in advance for the brevity of today’s blog. I have an early morning flight to catch. Later today, the two IIHF World Championship semifinal games will be held in Stockholm. At 9 a.m. EDT, Erik Gustafsson and Team Sweden (6-2-0) take on Finland (7-1-0), while Team USA (6-2-0) plays undefeated Switzerland (8-0-0). Phantoms goalie Cal Heeter is a member of Team USA but has not dressed for a

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FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: AND THEN THERE WAS GUS

Not including Team USA spare goaltender Cal Heeter of the Adirondack Phantoms, there were seven current Flyers-affiliated players who participated in yesterday’s IIHF World Championship quarterfinals in Helsinki and Stockholm. Three of the four quarterfinal matches featured Flyers players. Come tomorrow’s semis, there will only be one.

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Is Briere Tradable?

It is almost inevitable that Danny Briere will not be a member of the Philadelphia Flyers next year. The only question is whether he will be bought out or traded. The former is the more likely scenario.

Briere has a no-movement clause in his contract, which includes an all-inclusive no-trade. As such, Briere does not have to accept any trade he doesn’t feel is in his bes

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WEDNESDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The preliminary round portion of the 2013 IIHF World Championships in Helsinki and Stockholm are now complete. Single-elimination medal round play begins tomorrow, with two quarterfinal games apiece taking place at Hartwall Arena and The Globe.

* In yesterday’s most important game, Team Czech Republic entered the day needing a head-to-head win

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TUESDAY ROUNDUP: FLYERS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Today is the final day of the preliminary round of the 2013 IIHF World Championships. The top four teams in each bracket will move on the medal round quarterfinals. The last place finisher (Slovenia in one bracket, and Austria in the other) will be relegated to Division IA next year, being replaced by Kazakhstan and Italy in the 2014 Worlds. The re

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