The Broad Street Blog

Comcast Sportsnet in Philadelphia and TSN are both reporting that Montreal coach Guy Carbonneau has decided to bench goaltender Carey Price in favor of backup Jaroslav Halak for tonight’s game 4. Carbonneau said he would announce the starting goaltender just prior to the start of the game.
In game 3, Price gave up [...]

According to the Flyers website, after practice today, Mike Knuble stated that he his ready to return from the hamstring injury that has kept him out of the last 5 games. He suffered the injury while attempting to block a shot in game 5 in the previous round against the Washington Capitals. Knuble [...]

Coming into this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs, Martin Biron was an unproven quantity when it came to playoff hockey. At 30 years of age, he had never played in an NHL playoff game. Since the playoffs have started Biron has played spectacular in net and is the cornerstone behind the Flyers push through [...]

Just like playoff series between these two teams in the past, the tension and intensity are beginning to increase. Tom Kostopoulos’ sucker punch on Kimmo Timonen at the end of game 2 and Guy Carbonneau’s comments regarding it just added to it. But for the Flyers, since Bruce Boudreau of the Capitals started [...]

Following the Flyers’ fourth goal in Saturday’s game 2, Montreal’s Tom Kostopoulos landed a sucker punch on Flyers defenseman Kimmo Timonen. It has been classified by many as cheap, gutless, and cowardly.
Of course, Guy Carbonneau isn’t calling the hit that. He went as far as to say that Timonen deserved the [...]