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@BobbyClarkeFan16 BCF16, do you know Stortini from his Sudbury Wolves days?

Very good quess. - - And, correct! Bingo! We have a winner. Nice work BCF16. Congrats. I didn't think anyone would get it. We have some sharp dudes here. Flyers agree to terms with Zack Stortini by Staff Writer / Philadelphia Flyers July 2, 2014 The Philadelphia Flyers have agreed to terms with 6-4, 232-lb forward Zack Stortini to a one-year, two-way contract, according to general manager Ron Hextall. Stortini, 28 (9/11/1985), spent the 2013-14 season in the Anaheim Ducks organization playing for the team’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals, where he posted nine points (4g-5a) to go along with a league-leading 299 penalty minutes. He has spent parts of the last four seasons in the AHL with Oklahoma City (2010-11), Milwaukee (2011-12), Hamilton (2012-13) and Norfolk (2013-14), while also appearing in regular season games for the Nashville Predators (2011-12) and Edmonton Oilers (2006-2011). Stortini has accumulated 14 goals and 27 assists for 41 points and 725 penalty minutes in 257 NHL games in his career with the Oilers and Predators. He was a member of the Calder Cup Champion Hamilton Bulldogs in 2007 where he posted 15 points (9g-6a) in 47 regular season games and three goals in 22 Calder Cup Playoff games on the way to the title. He was originally drafted by Edmonton in the third round (94th overall) of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.

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Good guess. But, incorrect. Only one guess per member. Finally, after 5 weeks of this 'every Saturday Flyers Mystery Photo Contest', there is a complete strike-out - - - unless the absent Podein25 returns from the Manitoba wilderness and nails it. Not likely.

Flyers Camp Roster - 41 Players Forwards (22) Wade Allison, No. 57 Andy Andreoff, No. 10 Nicolas Aube-Kubel, No. 62 Connor Bunnaman, No. 82 Sean Couturier, No. 14 Joel Farabee, No. 86 Tyson Foerster, No. 52 Morgan Frost, No. 48 Claude Giroux, No. 28 Kevin Hayes, No. 13 Travis Konecny, No. 11 Tanner Laczynski, No. 58 Scott Laughton, No. 21 Oskar Lindblom, No. 23 Samuel Morin, No. 55 Nolan Patrick, No. 19 Michael Raffl, No. 12 Linus Sandin, No. 36 Carsen Twarynski, No. 81 James van Riemsdyk, No. 25 Jakub Voracek, No. 93 Zayde Wisdom, No. 71 Defensemen (14) Chris Bigras, No. 3 Justin Braun, No. 61 Mark Friedman, No. 59 Shayne Gostisbehere, No. 53 Erik Gustafsson, No. 56 Robert Hagg, No. 8 Philippe Myers, No. 5 Derrick Pouliot, No. 51 Nate Prosser, No. 39 Ivan Provorov, No. 9 Travis Sanheim, No. 6 Tyler Wotherspoon, No. 26 Wyatte Wylie, No. 65 Egor Zamula, No. 54 Goalies (5) Brian Elliott, No. 37 Carter Hart, No. 79 Alex Lyon, No. 34 Roddy Ross, No. 69 Felix Sandstrom, No. 32 • Joel Farabee changed his jersey number from No. 49 to No. 86. He'll be the first Flyer to ever wear No. 86 in a season. • Isaac Ratcliffe suffered a fractured rib while training and will be out a minimum of four weeks. • For now, David Kase, Linus Hogberg, German Rubtsov and Maksim Sushko will stay on loan overseas. • Goaltender Kirill Ustimenko is out four to five months (hip surgery).

Just a thought - If defenceman Cam York or RW Bobby Brink decide to leave college after this season, they could see some NHL or AHL action the rest of the way. The US college hockey season likely will end near the end of March. In every other season when a player leaves at the end of the season, there are only a few games left in the NHL season so players get a cup of coffee at best. But this season is different as the schedule does not end the first week of April, but rather on May 8. That means some players could get in 20-25 games at the NHL level or AHL level once they decide to leave college hockey. York turns 20 years old on Tuesday (Jan 5). He has been in the Team USA program for 3 seasons and at Michigan for one season. Brink is 19 years old, has played for Team USA for 2 seasons and Denver for one. Our Flyers are deep in prospects at the AHL level and College and European Leagues level. Even if there are extensive Flyers injuries and COVID related absences on the roster and Taxi Squad, York and Brink would be somewhat down on the depth chart. Example: Zamula and Wylie would be ahead of York, and with forwards, Cates (college) would be ahead of Brink. This assumes Twarynski, Laczynski, and Allison are on the 6-player Taxi Squad and Sandin is on the 23-player Flyers roster. It all depends on the Flyers absences throughout January, February and March. Since our AHL Phantoms players, have had an extra long time off, perhaps York and Brink, who have been playing regularly, may be considered. It would be a co-decision by Flyers GM Fletcher and York/Brink and dependent on circumstances.

I think I got all you guys. However, Podein25 hasn't checked-in yet. But, I think we stumped him also!

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That is what the Toronto Maple Leafs player said !

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Incorrect ! Only one guess per member. This is Jody Shelly -

Saturday Flyers Mystery Photo Contest Every Saturday at 12 Noon. Current Standings (of those who have participated in the first 4 weeks): 3 Podein25 1 CoachX 1 flyercanuck 0 pilldoc 12/5/20 CoachX - - - Hexy and Gretzky 12/12/20 Podein25 - - - Behn Wilson 12/12/20 Podein25 - - - Mark Friedman 12/19/20 Podein25 - - - Mike McKenna 12/26/20 flyercanuck - - - Forsberg and Kapanen Today, Jan 2, nobody will get the answer. Not even veteran Flyers fans P25 and CX. Guaranteed. Who is this Flyers tough guy?

Excellent question CX: [CoachX said: Lets say Morin fills a LW role, and does so successfully. The intangible of size and snarl is sorely missed on this team. With some smaller, talented players in the wings, it would be nice to have a role player (Maroon type), to level the ice a bit. So, would that open the door to another player or two be possible trade options with salary relief upside? I assume Morin is a cheap sign.] And, very good answer by you OR. This season's forwards will look something like this: Lindblom-Couturier-Voracek Farabee-Hayes-Konecny Giroux-Patrick-Sandin (G will settle P and S) Laughton-Bunnaman-Aube Kubel (ideal AV 4th line) #13-Raffl #14-JVR until moved somehow If Patrick not healthy, then Frost at 3C. LW Morin will be on the 6-man Taxi Squad and activated for specific games (vs Pens Malkin and Caps Wison, etc, and if significant injury or COVID related vacancies) IMO. An evaluation season for Morin. Next season will potentially yield several vacancies at forwards #10 to #13. Raffl and Laughton will be UFAs and then there is the July Expansion Draft. (I think there is a high probability that Seattle takes defenceman Hagg over C/LW Bunnaman - - NAK will be on the Protected List.) I, and many of us, like Laughton and hope he signs a new contract after the July Expansion Draft. (He would be safe from being selected by the Seattle Kraken because he would be a pending UFA.) So, the 2021-22 season could look like this if LW Morin has a good 2020-21 trial season: Lindblom-Couturier-Voracek Farabee-Hayes-Konecny Giroux-Patrick-Xxxxxx Laughton-Bunnaman-Aube Kubel (ideal AV 4th line) #13-Morin (plays selected games) (And, it's good to have an emergency defenceman in case of multiple injuries or COVID related vacancies) Xxxxxx = Sandin/Laczynski/Allison All JMO.

Reported by Adam Hermann at NBC Sports this afternoon (Jan 1) - From Sportsnet's report: "According to multiple sources, the NHL is beginning its Mystery, Alaska experiment, with four teams as part of a unique two-game, two-day “Outdoor Weekend” showcase at Lake Tahoe. Edgewood Tahoe Resort, home of the popular celebrity golf tournament, is hosting these games, which will be played around the 16th, 17th and 18th holes. "It is, at this point, a one-year project, but if it works, the NHL may consider making off-beat, “natural wilderness,” picturesque locations a regular occurrence. Whatever the case, this has a chance to be a special look in a challenging season." Jeez, that sounds amazing. The Flyers will face the Bruins and the other game in the showcase will be the Avalanche vs. the Golden Knights, according to Sportsnet. Considering the outdoorsy roots of the game, any time the NHL can put a hockey game outside, it should do so. And putting the game in new locales is a definite plus, particularly when they're as gorgeous as Lake Tahoe. Here's a view from the Edgewood Tahoe Resort Golf Course:

Thinking about the Flyers Schedule - For those outside the Philadelphia region TV coverage area, here is the released schedule for the 7 Flyers nationally televised games: COMPLETE FLYERS NATIONAL BROADCAST SCHEDULE Wednesday, Jan. 13 vs. Pittsburgh NBCSN 5:30PM Wednesday, Feb. 3 vs. Boston NBCSN TBD Sunday, Feb. 7 at Washington NBC TBD Sunday, Feb. 21 at Boston NBC TBD Wednesday, Feb. 24 vs. NY Rangers NBCSN TBD Wednesday, March 17 at NY Rangers NBCSN TBD Sunday, April 18 vs. NY Islanders NBC TBD For TV, I'm good here in Central PA with Comcast Cable carrying the NBC Sports - Philadelphia channels. I will see all the Flyers 56 games plus playoffs through the Stanley Cup Final vs the Colorado Avalanche . Those Flyers Board members who are in the US outside the Philadelphia TV coverage area, how do you see TV Flyers games? Is there an NHL TV package to subscribe to? Streaming? Pirating? Those Flyers Board members in Canada (Manitoba/Ontario/BC/etc), how do you see TV Flyers games? TSN for selected games? SportsNet for selected games? Is there a package to subscribe to in order to get all Flyers games? Streaming? Pirating? Or - - must many of us be stuck with only selected games and not the full season?

It will be fun to see our Flyers' LW Morin (6'-8", 230) do 'dump-and-chase' barreling-down on the Caps' Defenceman Chara (6'-9", 250) into the corner. Collision City. The first Flyers-Caps game is Sunday February 7 and will be on national TV in the US on NBC.

Report out of Boston today Jan 1, 2021 - It is being reported that the Boston Bruins will play an outdoor game at Lake Tahoe in February against the Philadelphia Flyers. When word became official last month that the NHL was returning to action in January, one of the new looks for the 2020-21 season was the new realigned divisions for one year. The new alignment with four new divisions would cut down on travel for teams and keep them more regionalized. The Boston Bruins were placed in the East Division and will play each team eight times in the 56-game shortened season. With fans not allowed at the TD Garden for at least the beginning of the season, the Bruins were rumored to be one of as many as eight teams exploring at playing games at outdoor venus in their city. According to a report from Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL Network reporter Elliotte Friedman, the Black and Gold will plan an outdoor game. The NHL is planning two outdoor games in Lake Tahoe in February with no fans in attendance. The Colorado Avalanche will play the Vegas Golden Knights in the first game, with the Bruins playing the Philadelphia Flyers the next day. The exact dates have not been finalized, but it appears the two-game, two-day “Outdoor Weekend” games would be played in mid-February. Both the Bruins and Flyers have their largest gap of off days this season around the middle of the month. The game would be broadcast on NBC and will be one of seven Bruins’ games scheduled to be broadcast by NBC and NBCSN during the regular-season. The game would also include drone camera angles of the game, giving fans a new viewing experience for hockey.

Friday, Jan 1, 2021 Bill Meltzer's report this morning - thorough as usual - and he is highly regarded - Fletcher said that Samuel Morin will attempt to make a positional switch from defense to left wing. Morin is now healthy after missing essentially the last two and three-quarter seasons due to two separate ACL tears in his right knee and, before that, a recurring issue with psoas muscle tears. Morin has been practicing as a winger for a couple of months. According to Fletcher, the positional switch represents Morin's best chance to earn an NHL roster spot in the immediate future and his combination of size and physicality match a need the Flyers' have in their lineup. Fletcher said both the organization and the player himself are committed to seeing the experiment through. Morin spoke after Fletcher. He said that the positional change was originally suggested in October by Alain Vigneault, along with Ian Laperriere. Vigneault told the player that the Flyers got pushed around physically by the New York Islanders in the playoffs, and Morin could help address that. The player said that, apart from daily practices as a forward, he's watched a lot of video. He's trying to pattern himself after longtime NHL role player Matt Martin, and keep his game simple, straight north-south, with short shifts. Morin said that he feels fine now but admitted that he's not back to the level he was -- which was right on the brink of an extended NHL opportunity -- before the string of major injuries. The Flyers 2013 first-round pick said that he realizes that he's fighting for the survival of his career at this point. Although he believes he could still have a career as a defenseman, Morin also believes that it's a bigger priority to simply play hockey again and that being a role-playing winger is the better avenue for him at this point in time. Back in minor hockey, according to Morin, he started out as a forward. However, he soon switched to defense. Morin admitted that there many details to being a winger that he's still working on, such as positional play in the defensive zone, but feels like he's making progress. During his video conference, Morin reiterated the central idea of what he told me in a one-on-one interview back in May: He is still driven by the dream of becoming a regular in the NHL and will do whatever is asked of him in the quest to make it come true. It's been seven years since Morin was first drafted and he's been on the cusp of an NHL breakthrough a few times -- he was even a late-camp cut in his very first NHL camp in 2013 --but has only dressed in a combined nine NHL games to date. Back in the mid-1990s, the Flyers tried to convert struggling 1992 first-round pick Jason Bowen from a defenseman to a left winger (where had previous experience, even at the major junior level). It did not work out as hoped, as Bowen's development actually continued to regress. On the flip side, switching from defense to left wing proved beneficial for Dan Kordic, who made it back to the NHL and played a couple of years as a regular on the Flyers' fourth line (albeit in a different era, when there was still a viable path for old-school enforcers to find NHL jobs). There is a misconception about Morin that he's a slow skater. Actually, before the ACL tears, he was actually an above-average straight line skater whose giant strides enabled him to close in open ice even on speedsters the caliber of Anthony Duclair. The skating adjustments that Morin had to make had nothing to do with his straight-line ability but more with his pivots, and use of his feet in close quarters (where his long reach was sometimes a disadvantage). The bigger adjustments had to do with decision-making both off-puck and on-puck. He too often tried to do a little too much; even at the AHL level he got away with things that probably would not have worked very often in the NHL. Morin is NOT devoid of skill. He isn't a bad passer and he has a cannon of a shot albeit not the most accurate of one or quickly released, which is why he was no longer a power play regular after his junior hockey career. Less is more with Morin. The more under control he plays, the more effective he tends to be. He wasn't going to be the next Zdeno Chara and certainly not the next Chris Pronger, but he probably would have found a regular role with the Flyers at some point if not for the injuries. Being exclusively a left-side defenseman and competing for a spot against a rookie Travis Sanheim and fellow 2013 draftee Robert Hägg (whom both Ron Hextall and Dave Hakstol were a little higher on because they felt that the Swede had finally found a consistent niche whereas Morin was still trying to find exactly what worked for him and what didn't, so he had lower lows competing with higher highs). Morin didn't seem far away, though, before the first psoas muscle tear. In fact, some felt that he had outplayed Hägg in training camp in Sept. 2017. The voices that ultimately counted -- the GM and the head coach -- felt Hägg had gotten all he could out of his three years in the AHL (he came over at 19 for a slide-rule eligible rookie year, so he arrived in the North American pros a season ahead of Morin). Even when Morin went back to the Phantoms in the fall of 2017, it felt like he'd be competing all year to move up for his first extended batch of NHL games. His eventual role may have been on the third pair and the penalty kill, playing 15 or 16 minutes a night, but he'd have gladly taken it. Unfortunately, Morin started breaking down physically within the first quarter of the 2017-18 season. The repeated aggravation of the psoas muscle issue caused him to be shut down first for four weeks, then for six weeks and then, after getting injured again in the Phantoms' outdoor game in Hershey, for the rest of the regular season. He returned during the playoffs, but in the first period of his third game (the Phantoms' five-overtime win in Charlotte), he tore his right ACL. Since that time, Morin missed about 10 months rehabbing the first tear. He got into a combined 11 games (six in the NHL, five in the AHL) before suffering the second ACL tear on a seemingly harmless play. Another long rehab followed, bringing him up to where he is right now: trying to save his career through a position switch. As anyone who has ever interacted with Morin off the ice knows, he is someone who is impossible to root against: bubbly, enthusiastic, usually smiling and almost invariably optimistic. He's had bad nothing but rotten luck for three years and he's now 25 years old. I will be rooting hard for him to make the switch to forward a successful one. Do I have some skepticism over whether it will work? Yes, mainly due to Morin missing all of that time and now trying to start over at a position he hasn't played since early in minor hockey. But I also know how strong his desire is and how excellent his work ethic is. If he can figure out some of the nuances of playing a structured game on the wing and if he can get his straight-line skating back close to where it was before -- since he'll be mainly going north-south and battling on the walls -- he's at least got a shot if he can finally stay healthy. Sam Morin, 6'-8", 230, LW/D

It's 9:38 PM ET Thurs night and the Team USA vs Team Sweden game just started. All 3 Flyers players are in this game: Team USA - Cam York, Bobby Brink Team Sweden - Emil Andrae NHL Network in the US. TSN in Canada.

@ruxpin Hmm. Sharp observation by you. However, this image is not the contest question. It's just the every Thursday advertisement reminder to tune-in to Saturday's 12 Noon Flyers Photo contest for the mystery photo. In the first 5 Saturdays, I have been amazed at how quickly members got the answer. And some were very hard. As a rookie, I'm learning that there are sharp Flyers fans here. But, but, but - - not this coming Saturday. The new Flyers Photo of a 'Flyers player in a fight' is toooo hard. Nobody will get it.

Dirty play by Pittsburgh's Malkin. Also dirty play by the Vancouver Canucks - - distracting opposition players in the penalty box to keep them from focusing on the game on the ice: This is why we need Sam Morin at LW.

Hmm. Good thinking. But - - Incorrect. Nobody will get this one. Tune in Saturday at 12 Noon.

@ruxpin Wow! Correct! How did you do that? Flyers Ed 'Boxcar' Hospodar. As an enforcer, he was best known for being one of the instigators of a pregame brawl between the Montreal Canadiens and the Philadelphia Flyers in the Montreal Forum prior to game six of the Wales Conference finals on May 14, 1987, an act which earned him a suspension for the remainder of that year's playoffs. The fight that changed hockey More than one Flyer had told the Canadiens' Claude Lemieux not to end the pregame warm-up by shooting a puck into the Flyers' empty net. Lemieux's ritual, much like his personality, had crawled under the Flyers' skin like a 200-pound tick. "Don't do it, Claude," Hospodar had said and, for a moment, it appeared as though Lemieux would listen. But after the Flyers left the ice, Lemieux and teammate Shayne Corson sneaked back out with a puck to shoot into the Philadelphia net. It took only seconds for the Montreal-Philadelphia pregame spark to become a three-alarm blaze. Hospodar and backup goalie Chico Resch raced back onto the ice when they saw Lemieux and Corson. Soon players from both teams poured out of the dressing rooms and an all out brawl littered the ice. Overlooked at the time was how Flyers' coach Mike Keenan had dressed 24 skaters for the warm-ups. Montreal had 18 and two goalies. Again, those were the days. "We dressed a lot of guys," Brown acknowledged. "[Lemieux's pregame ritual] was a silly thing. But if he was going to do it, we weren't going to put up with it." NO, NO, NO. Incorrect. Not Hospodar. Tune in on Saturday at 12 Noon. Nobody will get it! Flyers Enforcer Ed 'Boxcar' Hospodar