🔔 Flyers expectations this season? 🔔 Briere to blame for Gauthier and Kolosov? 🔔 Farabee's future? More ⤵️ nytimes.com/athletic/57607…

Flyers rookie game roster for tonight

Well we're waiting here in Allentown

Does Michkov have to be aware of other guys trying to run him? Ian Laperriere: “I think he’s used to it. When you’re that talented, everywhere you’ve been somebody would come after you. … I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t that guy. I went after guys like that.”

Laperriere says he wants to the power play tonight to run through Michkov on the half wall. Andrae will be up top and Bonk in the bumper

Michkov looks fantastic here in the third. As he should, I suppose, in a rookie game.

Matvei Michkov dazzles in Flyers rookie game: ‘He’s got that swag to him’ From Allentown 🔗⤵️ nytimes.com/athletic/artic…

Matvei Michkov dazzles in Flyers rookie game: 'He's got that swag to him' dlvr.it/TDDkSd

Flyers player development director Riley Armstrong thinks Matvei Michkov could actually raise the intensity of practices at the NHL level. "I think it’s going to bring everybody’s game up... He’s always going to be pushing the pace.” More 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/57664…

This was the shift that I think made everyone say to themselves...OK, this dude has got some tools. He won't be able to do this at the NHL level yet, of course. But it was still impressive as hell.

I'm sorry but Phlex would eat this thing for lunch

The Blue Jackets have signed JVR to a one year, $900k deal.

Is this the Flyers' next big, mean defenseman of the future? nytimes.com/athletic/57685…

"“He’s lean, he’s big and he’s strong. ... He’s a powerful skater and hasn’t lost any of the quickness that you worry about when you are gaining weight.” Hunter McDonald put on 20 lbs in the off-season, and his nastiness has been evident in rookie camp. nytimes.com/athletic/57685…

Around 10 pm Sunday, worst kept secret in @nhl was finalized: Sidney Crosby was indeed remaining with Pittsburgh Penguins Details on the deal via The Athletic NHL nytimes.com/athletic/56867…

Laperriere doesn't know why Kolosov won't report. Points out that last season some teammates asked him to dinner repeatedly and "he said no. I get it, he doesn't speak English, so that's going to be tough." But, "it's part of pro hockey when you go from one country to the other."

Bad take. Anyone who's ever met Ian Laperriere knows that he's among the friendliest, most affable people in hockey. If he can't make someone feel welcome, no one can. Anyone suggesting this is somehow his fault has zero clue.

He hadn't played in a month when he arrived, the team was in the middle of a playoff chase, and Cal Petersen was apparently playing well. Maybe the organization erred somehow along the way. Maybe the kid just doesn't want to be here. But pointing the finger at IL is dumb