The Broad Street Blog

This past Monday night was Philadelphia Flyers night at the Phillies game. Martin Biron threw out the first pitch and was joined on the mound by teammates Kimmo Timonen, Braydon Coburn, Jason Smith, Mike Knuble and Coach John Stevens.

Here is the list of the Flyers free agents.
Restricted
Jeff Carter
RJ Umberger
Randy Jones
Riley Cote
Patrick Thoresen
Unrestricted
Jason Smith
Jim Dowd
Vaclav Prospal
Jaroslav Modry
Yesterday, Eklund over at Hockey Buzz brought up the rumor/speculation that Flyers may move RJ Umberger in exchange for the Nashville Predators’ Ryan Suter. Suter was Nashville’s 1st round draft choice in 2003 (7th pick overall). [...]

For the Flyers, the past two days have meant closing out the 2007-2008 season. Yesterday saw Coach John Stevens and GM Paul Holmgren meeting with the media to discuss the past season and what is to come in the next few months.
Some interesting quotes from the pair include Holmgren talking about his offseason priorities:
“Obviously, [...]

The Flyers may have punched their playoff ticket on Friday night by defeating the New Jersey Devils and getting a bit of help from the Florida Panthers, but there was still one more game to be played. Today it was the Pittsburgh Penguins coming to town a few days after beating the Flyers 4-2. [...]