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OKT and Bartulis - Paul Holmgren is starting to scare me with all his 5,6 defenseman talk. I think OKT and Oskars have been decent with the puck. Sure they get turned inside out in one-on-one's occasionally, but they're the third pairing. That's bound to happen. Can't wait to see what Holmgren digs up from the under $2M defenseman who are going to be free agents bin. Hope Jarolsav Modry is still in shape.
Scottie Doesn't Know - Actually maybe he does. With his hat trick last night Scottie Upshall is now on pace to net 25 goals this season and finally get paid the money he thinks he deserves. Upshall currently is making $1.5M but a stat line in the neighborhood of 25-25-50 gets you Lupul-Kunitz money, which would be somewhere around a recession affected $3.25M.
Today in Flyers History - 21 years ago in 1989 the Flyers beat the Winnipeg Jets 7-3 on the back of a Tim Kerr hat trick (30,31,32). Rich Tocchet scored his 26th, Brian Propp hit the 20 goal mark, and good old Mike Bullard netted number 17. Ron Hextall got the win with a 37 save effort and Jeff Chychrun enjoyed 5 minutes in the box for fighting.
Ben Eager - turns 26 today. He scored his 5th goal in his 34th game last night for Chicago.
You may remember a guy named Darren Reid who played a bit for the Flyers and a lot for the Phantoms during the 2006-07 season. Since his 14 games in the Orange & Black he's had a fairly rough run of it, and the 26 year old Alberta native will be suiting up for the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL for his third game tonight.
Speaking of that 2006-07 Phantoms team, there are only 2 players who played for that club that are still members of the Phantoms - Jared Ross and Jon Matsumoto.
Vinny Prospal and Rod Brind'Amour are the only two players from the Flyers 1997 Eastern Conference Champion team that are still playing in the NHL.
Simon Gagne is the 12th longest tenured Flyer in terms of games played. In three games he'll pass Rod the Bod and by the end of the season he'll move into 10th after passing Johnny On The Spot. And then it's only 6 more seasons to pass Bobby Clarke.
Of Flyers with over 320 games played John Leclair has the most game winning goals per game with a GWG every 10 games. Jeff Carter is second with one every 12th game and Reggie Leach is third by a slim margin. Of Flyers with more than 10 games JVR is numero uno with 5 GWG in 45 games.
Of Flyers with over 100 games played all time Riley Cote has the least shots per games played at 1 shot every 6 games.
Of Flyers with over 320 games played Pelle Eklund has the most distorted Goals to Assists ratio with nearly 3 assists for every goal - 118g, 334a, 452 pts. On the other side of things Reggie Leach had two goals for every assist - 306g, 208a, 514 pts. In 284 games Kevin Dineen had 88 goals and 88 assists - he should be a Canadian Supreme Court justice. Of current Flyers Gagne is pretty close to that with 248g and 255 assists.
There are two current NHLers who played less than 10 games as a Flyer - the Islanders Richard Park and the Thrashers Todd White.
Last Week Flyers prospect Zac Rinaldo was traded to the OHL's Eastern Conference leading Barrie Colts in hopes that he would provide some spark and defense for their run at the Memorial Cup. Rinaldo leads the OHL in PIM. Another prospect, Eric Wellwood, is having a break out year with the Memorial Cup defending champion Windsor Spitfires, as he has 52 points in 45 games. Last year he had 34 points in 61 games.
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