Devils captain Jamie Langenbrunner is a healthy scratch tonight, sitting at home tonight waiting to be traded. Should the Flyers make a pitch for the 35-year-old right wing at a price of $2.8 million? The short answer is yes, but what would it take?
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FLYERS-BLACKHAWKS GAME ON JAN. 23 SELECTED AS NBC’S “GAME OF THE WEEK†In conjunction with the National Hockey League and NBC, the Philadelphia Flyers announced today that their January 23 road game against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center will be televised nationally on NBC. To accommodate the broadcast, the game time has been moved up to 12:30pm Eastern time from 4:00pm, as previously scheduled. The game will mark the first meeting between Chicago and Philadelphia since Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 9, 2010. It is the only scheduled regular-season meeting between the two clubs during the 2010-11 campaign
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VOORHEES When Haddonfield’s Steven Kempa showed up at the Flyers’ practice rink on Tuesday wearing his dress blues from the United States Naval Academy, he hoped that maybe a player would toss him a puck. Flyers enforcer Jody Shelley did something more, inviting him into the Flyers’ dressing room.
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When Haddonfield’s Steven Kemp showed up at the Flyers’ practice rink on Tuesday wearing his dress blues from the United States Naval Academy, he hoped that maybe a player would toss him a puck. Flyers enforcer Jody Shelley did something more, inviting him into the Flyers’ dressing room. “He was wearing his uniform, so I thought I’d invite him in to meet the guys,†Shelley said with a gap-toothed smile. Kemp, 20, watched practice with his girlfriend, Amanda King, but abandoned her without a second thought.
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Michael Leighton will spent the next few hours packing his bags for Glens Falls and not Long Island. Leighton cleared waivers on Tuesday and will begin playing with the Adirondack Phantoms.
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Is Flyers goaltender Michael Leighton on his way to Long Island? The New York Islanders have until noon today to claim Leighton off waivers and after watching Rick DiPietro go down with a lower body injury Monday night in a 4-1 win over Calgary they might do just that. The Isles traded backup Dwayne Roloson to the Lightning Saturday night for defenseman Ty Wishart. “I can’t speak for the Islanders, but our intent was to get Michael some playing time, not to lose him,†Flyers assistant GM Barry Hanrahan told me this morning. “Our intent is for him to play for the Phantoms.†Leighton helped lead the Flyers to the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, but back surgery on Oct
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Conference call with Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren January 3, 2011 Q: How long had you been thinking about this decision? “Well, it’s something that we’ve thought about here over the last few days. There’s really two reasons for doing this. One, it’s in the best interests of the Flyers at this time, and number two, it’s in the best interests of Michael.
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The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that they have placed goaltender Michael Leighton on waivers, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. The Flyers return to action on Thursday night when they visit the New Jersey Devils (7:00, CSN-HD, 610 WIP).
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Technically, the Flyers’ longest road trip of the season – five games over 12 days — ends Thursday night when they visit the New Jersey Devils. However, the team returned home Sunday night following an impressive 3-2 win over the Red Wings in Detroit, allowing the players to sleep in their own beds three nights before a quick trip to Newark for the first of back-to-back games against the Devils. The Flyers went 2-2 on their road trip, not bad considering they played their worst defensive hockey of the season in a three-game stretch against the Canucks (a 6-2 loss), the Kings (a 7-4 win) and Ducks (a 5-2 loss). Coach Peter Laviolette rotated all three of his goalies – Brian Boucher, Michael Leighton and Sergei Bobrovsky – in the first three games of the trip but his decision to start Boucher in Detroit spoke volumes
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A week ago, Flyers coach Peter Laviolette said having three goalies was a good problem to have, as long as all three were playing well. Now that Sergei Bobrovsky, Brian Boucher and Michael Leighton are playing poorly, the Flyers may be close to resolving their crowded crease. The easiest solution is to send Bobrovsky to the AHL Phantoms, where he can play a string of games without looking over his shoulder.
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