Pelle Lindbergh
With the regular season officially over, the Flyers started to hand out team awards, usually reserved for the final home game of the regular season, throughout the course of the week.
The series of greatest moments continues with a moment that is not a great moment, but a tribute to one of the greatest players the Flyers franchise has ever known, Pelle Lindbergh.
Carter Hart wore the number 31 in the AHL with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and will keep the number this season, should he be in Allentown. In juniors, he wore No. 70 and that figured to be the number he would take to the NHL. But it seems a new number will be Hart’s choice whenever he makes his NHL debut.
No Philadelphia Flyers rookie has ever won the Calder Trophy. It is not that they have not had their share of viable candidates over the years. They've had a few top-end finishers in the balloting and their fair share who've earned NHL All-Rookie Team selection honors after the season but never an NHL rookie of […]
As a member of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, I vote in several of the Flyers' team awards. While I will not reveal for whom I currently plan to vote, here's who I think are the frontrunners to win each of the main categories.
It's another week with one win and two losses for the Flyers. A 1-0-2 week is certainly a lot better than the ones of recent memory, but the team is still struggling for points in the standings and goals on the ice. Miss anything on Flyerdelphia from this week? We have it all […]
It started promising, then quickly faded into the abyss that has been the lone consistency of the Flyers season. Thus is a 1-2-0 week that ended with two poorly played blowout losses. It left the door open for more discussion surrounding the team, which there was plenty of on Flyerdelphia this week. In case you […]
View image | gettyimages.com It is a date that lives in Flyers infamy. In the early morning hours of November 10, 1985, Flyers star goaltender Pelle Lindbergh crashed his red Porsche in Somerdale, NJ, not far from the Flyers practice facility in Voorhees. The crash left him brain dead, and he died at age […]
Over the course of the last few years, the Philadelphia Flyers' farm system has gone from virtually barren — the after-effects of being strip-mined of high-end draft picks in "win now" drives — to one of the main reasons for long-term optimism. In particular, the pool of defense prospects has received considerable attention and hype […]
Twenty-nine years ago, one of the brightest young stars was gone from the NHL sky. Today marks the anniversary of the day we lost our Vezina Trophy-winning netminder, Pelle Lindbergh. As hard as he played on the ice was also as hard as he played off of it.
