I had to laugh the other day when I read about a Chinese baseball team, the Rakuten Monkeys, installing 500 robot/mannequin pseudo-fans to fill their seats for a game at their home field in Kaohsiung […]
On the ice, hockey is on hold. But off it, the Flyers are busy thinking about their future. That was evident in their recent signing of forwards Wade Allison and Tanner Laczynski, two […]
With each passing day it would seem our thoughts turn more toward health and safety in the home and less about non-essential activities like organized sports. Yes, speculation about when/if television-worthy games will return occasionally […]
Dear Hockey Fan, Here’s hoping this finds you well and that you enjoy continued good health. Let’s begin this missive by stating right up front we understand that in the department store of life, sports […]
It’s hard to argue with that time-worn colloquial expression “there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics’’ but we think we have one example that might defy that assertion. That is, numbers/statistics […]
Now that the Flyers are officially in a race for their first division title in what seems like ages, it’s worth taking a look at the schedule for their remaining games, as well as the […]
Usually a team which uses a lot of rookies is either out of the playoff picture or trying to get a lot younger and a lot cheaper in a hurry. The Flyers, who were fifth […]
TAMPA – Here we are, just nine days from the NHL trade deadline, and no one is quite sure what the Flyers are about to do to improve their roster. They entered […]
With only about two months left in the season, the Flyers are once again put in a position where they have to up their play to get into postseason action. Here, in our opinion, are […]
Waiting to receive the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association’s coveted Stan Hochman Award the other night, it dawned on me that I’ve covered a few hockey games in my time. Maybe a few thousand. […]
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