The Grind Line: Grading the Red Wings’ Free Agent Signings
What’s The Grind Line? Apart from the once-famous line of Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, and either Joe Kocur or Darren McCarty, The Grind Line is also The Hockey Writers’ weekly…
Valtteri Filppula
NHL News & Notes: Filppula, Girardi & More
In today’s News & Notes, Valtteri Filppula will be out four weeks after suffering an injury against the Boston Bruins, Dan Girardi is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury and…
Islanders’ Culture Change on Full Display
The Lou Lamoriello era in New York is officially underway, and the team he now manages has jumped to a 2-1-0 start despite the tough opponents they have faced. With…
7 UFA Centers for the Canadiens to Target
In what has been called a “living wake,” the Montreal Canadiens are in the final weeks of a crazy calamitous, insidiously injurious, and depressingly disastrous season of hockey. However, according…
Should Tampa Fans Still Trust the “Yzerplan”
For Tampa Bay Lightning fans, it’s been a long year. Starting with Steven Stamkos’s injury in November, the Lightning have faced a list of injuries as long as the wait…
Preview: Philadelphia Looking to Fly Past Maple Leafs
Another game in Toronto and another matchup with playoff implications when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday. The Leafs will be looking to make it two…
Gostisbehere, Filppula Crucial to Flyers’ Home Stretch
Due to the fact that nobody seems particularly intent on running away with the eighth playoff spot in the East, the Philadelphia Flyers are still not out of the picture.…
Preview: Capitals Host Struggling Flyers
The Washington Capitals look to keep rolling as they host the struggling Philadelphia Flyers Saturday. Washington’s 14-game home-ice winning streak is on the line, and they can continue to assert…
Expansion Draft vs. Trade Deadline
This season the trade deadline carried more implications due to the incoming Vegas Golden Knights and the 2017 Expansion Draft. The expansion draft added more depth to the trade deadline…
Preview: Panthers Face Flyers With Playoff Implications
The Florida Panthers make their way up north Thursday night to face the Philadelphia Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center at 7:00 pm EST. Both teams are right in the thick…
Flyers Have Mixed Trade Deadline
Before the NHL trade deadline, Philadelphia Flyers general manager Ron Hextall said his team would not be buyers. It turned out the Flyers would be a mix of things in their…
Lightning Swap Filppula for Flyers’ Streit, Send Streit to Pens
The Tampa Bay Lightning acquired defenseman Mark Streit from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Valtteri Filppula, a fourth-round pick and a conditional seventh-round pick in the 2017 NHL Entry…