FLYERS PILGRIMAGES: NIAGARA FALLS
Years before the Philadelphia Flyers played their first game in the National Hockey League, the Niagara Falls Flyers were one of the most prominent teams in the old Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). Created in 1960, the Boston Bruins-affiliated Niagara Falls club won three OHA championships and two Memorial Cups between 1962-63 and 1967-68.
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QUICK HITS: AUGUST 30
* Radel Fazleev and Travis Sanheim both enjoyed multi-point games but the Calgary Hitmen sustained a 6-5 loss to the Regina Pats in Western Hockey League preseason action last night. Calgary outshot Regina by a 43-20 margin but yielded three goals apiece in the first and third periods. In the meantime, the Hitmen exploded for five goals in the second period but could not f
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RESULTS: Claude Giroux earned just over 55 percent of the votes to defeat Steve Mason’s amazing save on Pens’ Beau Bennett in the second semifinal fan vote in the Flyers Highlight of the Year Tournament.
In what would be a common storyline all …
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WHITE SHELVED WITH TORN PECTORAL
Signed by the Philadelphia Flyers to a one-year, two-way contract earlier this month, center Ryan White while have to wait to get his 2014-15 season underway. Yesterday, the Flyers announced that White underwent surgery to repair a torn left pectoral suffered in a workout last week. There is no current timetable for his return.
The gritty 26-year-old White ha
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Flyers general manager Ron Hextall gave the following injury update on center Ryan White.
“Ryan White had successful surgery to repair his left pectoralis muscle. His surgery was performed yesterday by Dr. Gerry Williams at Methodist hospital. …
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MANNING SIGNS ONE-YEAR CONTRACT
For the second straight year, restricted free agent defenseman Brandon Manning has signed a new one-year contract in late August. Yesterday, the Philadelphia Flyers inked the 24-year-old blueliner to a two-way contract for the 2014-15 season.
The deal pays $700,000 at the NHL level and $100,000 if Manning is assigned to the American Hockey League’s Lehigh Val
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The Philadelphia Flyers have re-signed restricted free-agent defenseman Brandon Manning to a one-year contract, according to general manager Ron Hextall.
Manning, 24 (6/4/1990), appeared in 73 games for the Flyers’ American Hockey League affi…
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The Philadelphia Flyers and Comcast SportsNet today announced their local television and radio broadcast schedules, along with changes to their radio and television broadcast teams.
The Flyers will have 70 games televised locally in the Phila…
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FLYERS AWAIT MEDICAL NEWS ON TIMONEN
Veteran Flyers defenseman Kimmo Timonen was slated yesterday to meet with team doctors to obtain further information about the medical condition that led to his hospitalization in Finland with blood clots in both of his lungs and his right calf. Although the prognosis for his long-term health is good, the resumption of his hockey playing career remains in do
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Something about June 23 unleashes the beast in Flyers management.
Jeff Carter, Mike Richards, JVR and now Scott Hartnell all traded on this fateful day over the last, several years.
Itâs been a busy couple weeks for newly-installed Flyers general manager Ron Hextall.
On June 4, he announced the agreement with Reading of the ECHL, completing his double link minor league system into Pe
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