Booooring Week For Flyers Fans So Here's Some Cool Stuff For You
It’s been a long and boring week for Flyers fans all across the globe. The team, currently on a 3-game winning streak mind you, hasn’t played since beating down those sorry plugs on the Avalanche last Saturday. Voracek is still sitting pretty at #2 in the league in points with 22, and G is up in the top 10 with 18. The Flyguys’ week-long break ends tomorrow night against the Blue Jackets. We’ll have a Mason vs. Bobrovsky match-up that’ll be sure to make Twitter explode, and we’ll have the return of Scott Hartnell for the first time since getting shipped off to Columbus for Cumberger. Let’s just hope the in game tribute to Hartsy is something similar to this.
– Real great story on the Flyers embracing Jackie Lithgow, a student from Bloomsburg who was assaulted last year and left with some pretty serious brain injuries via Philly.com
(I highly recommend reading more about Jackie’s story if you haven’t already. It was a tragic and senseless incident that occurred last year that nobody should ever have to go through. Luckily he’s starting to make a great deal of progress and if you’d like to donate to his cause and lend a hand to the Lithgow family, there’s a gofundme page set up here).
– A must-read for any Flyers fan: The case for Eric Lindros to be inducted to the Hall of Fame. [TSN]
(Reminder that Big E will be inducted into the Flyers Hall of Fame next Thursday vs. Minnesota)
– Some Pittsburgh idiot decided to breakdown all 30 NHL teams as Chain Restaurants. Here’s what the Flyers ended up as.
You can see the other 29 teams here.
– The Ghost Bear goes under the knife today to surgically repair that torn ACL. Stolarz hits us all with a quick dosage of the feels.
Best of luck to @s_ghost14 today with his surgery. Get back soon bud, pretty lonely around the apartment without ya.
— Anthony Stolarz (@StolieTheGoalie) November 13, 2014
– I’m sure there will be a full blog on this but the rumors of the NHL expanding to Las Vegas are continuing to pick up some more steam [Puck Daddy]
– It’s now been a full week since Michael Del Zotto scored his first goal as a Flyer and I’m starting to go through withdrawal.
– Speaking of MDZ, here’s a more in-depth article breaking down his performance so far this season. [Flyerdelphia]
– Luke Schenn appears to be feeling a little better while the timetable for MacDonald is still up in the air. [CSN]
– Here’s Jake the Snake on the cover of some Czech paper with the headline saying Jako Crosby? Idk but that hair is lethal.
– More Hartnell talk via The Orange Update.
– Lastly, make sure to listen to the newest episode of 5 Minute Major. Lots of good hockey talk including hockey gambling 101 from RearAd.
And that’s all she wrote for now. We only got a little more than 24 more hours left to go until Flyers hockey is back in our lives. Hope we can all make it that long. For anymore Flyers talk to get you through the week, follow me @BarstoolJordie.