Digityman

Bryz is awesome!

So worth his contract.

(couldn't resist)

@church4lax

That would make sense.

He looked completely out of it when talking to Giroux on the bench during one close up.

@MaineFlyFan

Thanks. Still got the orange & black.

@ChiFlyfan

Bryz

@Desert_Fly_Dog

Either he's injured, sick or in the dog house.

9:22 TOI last night against his old team?

Something is up.

Not much good came out of the Flyers’ early playoff exit in 2009. But it was during their six-game series with the Pittsburgh Penguins that Claude Giroux showed early signs of all-star potential.

The Penguins got the memo, too – and with Giroux now the sole owner of the NHL points lead (36), they know they’ve got to shut him down tonight at the Wells Fargo Center in order to keep their Atlantic Division lead.

“He’s a talented, talented guy,” Penguins forward Craig Adams said after today’s morning skate. “We saw a little bit of that [in the playoffs in ‘09] and we were a little bit like, who is this guy?

“But now, everybody knows who he is. I watched the very end of that game last night, and obviously he put it away. He looks confident, he’s got a lot of skill, so we’re going to have to do a good job against him tonight.”

Giroux registered five points during that series against the Pens, and he’s only gotten more comfortable and more successful from there.

“He had the respect of a lot of guys in our room even his rookie year, even when other people in the Western Conference probably didn’t know who he was just because they didn’t see him a lot,” Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik said. “He’s a guy we’ve always been aware of, and he’s still pretty young, he’s only going to get better and better.

“He’s a guy we’ve always had a lot of respect for, the majority of us watched the game last night, he put on a pretty good show. He’s someone we’ve got to keep an eye on.”

Pascal Dupuis, the Penguins’ veteran winger, agreed.

“He’s another highly skilled player,” he said. “Skates well, really, really good with the puck. He’s making the right plays right now. He’s playing some good hockey, so obviously we’re trying to keep an eye on him all the time.”

Please post only videos in this thread that are about the Winter Classic & HBO's 24/7.

Here it is.

Granted Talbot is supporting his teammate but that's a heck of a comparison.

We all know that Sidney Crosby is a really special player. He’s one of the best in the league, if not the best. His former teammate Maxime Talbot seems to think he’s playing alongside someone just like him in Claude Giroux.

Sound crazy? Sam Carchidi of Philly.com believes it himself but Talbot is eager to share his thoughts. Carchidi asked Talbot if it’s too early to put Giroux on Crosby’s level. His response was telling.

“No, he’s been the best in the league since the beginning of the year,” Talbot said the other day.

Not only does Talbot believe it but Hall of Famer and Flyers legend Bill Barber does too. Does that make it true though? The results are hard to argue with.

Giroux is near the top of the NHL scoring leaderboard and has easily been the Flyers’ best player and one of the best scorers in the league. All those accolades are what Crosby brings to the table for the Penguins.

Connecting the two isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds, but we’ll see how these two guys stack up against each other and through the rest of the season. We haven’t seen the best from Crosby yet while Giroux is showing us everything he’s got.

14-2 in the last 16.

Seem to firing on all cylinders now.

From Boston.com

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Yesterday wasn’t the first time Tyler Seguin has missed a team meeting. But being a repeat offender cost him a chance to play.

Seguin was scratched because he was absent for a team breakfast and meeting yesterday morning. Instead of appearing in his 26th game, Seguin watched last night’s 2-1 loss from the MTS Centre press box, the consequence for his actions.

“Just one of those things you’ve got to do once in a while as a coach,’’ said coach Claude Julien. “He’s missed some meetings. Obviously it’s not the first time. When it’s the first time, you give guys a break. But it’s happened more than a few times. At one point, he’s got to hold himself responsible. We felt he could have easily done that. Hopefully it’s a learning thing. He’s a good player and a good individual. He’s going to bounce back and play for us next game.’’

Seguin was informed of the decision yesterday afternoon. Jordan Caron, who hadn’t played since Nov. 15, replaced Seguin on the No. 2 line alongside Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron.

“It is a mistake,’’ Seguin said. “Something you can really only learn from and move on. It was a mistake. I know it wasn’t professional. It’s going to have consequences. It’s against team rules. Tonight I paid the consequences.’’

The Bruins arrived in Winnipeg early yesterday morning after their 3-1 win over Pittsburgh on Monday.

Asked how Seguin took the news, general manager Peter Chiarelli said, “Not good. But he understands there’s a set of team rules. Everybody plays by the same rules.’’

Seguin has 13 goals and 12 assists.

I plan on having the full episodes up the morning after they are aired for everyone here to view.

The top four teams in each Conference qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The first-place team would play the fourth-place team; the second-place team would play the third-place team. The four respective Conference champions would meet in the third round of the Playoffs, with the survivors playing for the Stanley Cup

So the first two rounds of the playoffs would always be against teams in your conference? Flyers, Pens, Caps, Rangers, Islanders, Cains, Devils?

I'm going to go with in the last 5 years:

1) Pens

2) Caps

3) Bruins

4) Rangers

5) Leafs

Call dives and players will stop.

This exactly. Start calling them more and it will stop.

This one gets a suspension.

Looks to me like he was trying avoid him. If it was anybody other than Miller would it have been such an issue?

Can we get a new tag for "blog posts"

I added "Blog - Internet" & "Blog - HB Member" tags.

Digity, we need a new category (Re-entry Waivers)

Added the following:

Re-Entry Waivers

Cleared Waivers

TORONTO - For more than a decade, Tomas Kaberle was an institution at a Maple Leafs-Boston Bruins game.

Now he’s in the doghouse in Carolina.

Up until last February, Kaberle had been a Leaf for his entire career. Then he was traded to the Bruins, the team he would go on to win a Stanley Cup with.

The Bruins opted not to re-sign Kaberle during the off-season, allowing him to ink a three-year, $12.75 million US deal with the Carolina Hurricanes.

But things have not been good for Kaberle on Tobacco Road. Through 25 games he has just five points and is minus-12, causing Canes GM Jim Rutherford to call out the veteran defenceman in public on Wednesday.

“He has to figure out a way to get out of it or he won’t be playing with the Hurricanes long,” Rutherford told XM Home Ice radio.

Maybe the Leafs and Bruins knew something when they let him go.

Link

THE FLYERS are ranked the eighth-most valuable NHL franchise by Forbes magazine with a worth of $290 million.

That represents a decline from last year, when the Flyers were ranked sixth, at $301 million.

Forbes ranked the Toronto Maple Leafs as the most valuable NHL franchise with a worth of $521 million.

Forbes reported the average team value hit a record $240 million, while operating income fell 21 percent due to soaring player salaries.

Hockey's wealth gap is widening: 18 of the 30 teams are losing money while top markets like Toronto, New York City and Montreal see their values rising, thanks to ticket revenue and cable television deals.

The Rangers are second at $507 million and the Montreal Canadiens third at $445 million. Detroit is fourth at $336 million and Stanley Cup-champion Boston is fifth at $325 million.

Chicago, Vancouver, the Flyers, Pittsburgh and the Los Angeles Kings round out the top 10.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/flyers/20111201_Flyers_are_8th_in_value.html

From Tim P

WESTMINSTER, Calif. - Seems every time we talk to a Flyer we find out something new about their health status.

In recent weeks, we found that Matt Read definitely had a concussion at the start of November and missed three games; we found that while Chris Pronger had a virus last week, it was really his left knee that was keeping him out of the lineup.

And today, goalie Ilya Bryzgalov told us that he was fighting a bad cold last week, couldn't stop coughing, and still is fighting cold symptoms but expects to play this weekend.

"I was sick," he said today.

Bryz says he is focusing on Anaheim so we interpret that to mean he will start that game. How it goes could very well determine who plays Saturday at Phoenix.

Coach Peter Laviolette totally dismissed Bryzgalov's cold as a reason for his benching last week, saying while his goalie was sick, the bottom line is that the staff was rewarding Sergei Bobrovsky for some stellar relief work.

And I believe Lavy when he says that. And I also believe BOB should have been in net last week.

What I'm not sure of is how much Bryz's illness had to do with his poor play in the goal.

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Jaromir Jagr says he feels really strong and will be back on Friday, as well.

We told you before about Jagr's acupuncture treatments but we learned today that they are accompanied by an injection of electric steam into the damaged muscle tissue at the point of the needle.

Jagr insists this steam injection is a critical difference in his acupuncture treatments over standard treatments.

I like Shelly as a person

You know him?