07-08 Philadelphia Flyers Off-Season Thread

[Munson]

She's almost as dreamy as the real Jeff Carter.

[Seabiscuit36]

Will the Flyers' AHL team skate down to A.C. or Baltimore?  IGY would you go to games? 

[ice grillin you]

i go to phantom games in philly so id definitely go in baltimore but its not gonna happen...thats just the writer throwing it out there

[Seabiscuit36]

Baltimore makes more sense to me than AC.  AC has failed miserably in previous attempts to bring hockey there. 

[ice grillin you]

so has baltimore

id prefer they stay in the delaware valley...christ if they can find money to build a friggin soccer stadium they can do it for the phantoms

[MDS]

the liac center is owned by comcast. bring hockey to the hood, g.

[Seabiscuit36]

I definitely think for them to maintain a large base of fans, they need to stay in philly, i just dont see the Flyers Org thinking that way. 

[ice grillin you]

i think middle americans in the lehigh valley would support...but i agree they should stay local...south jersey would be ideal

[QB Eagles]

The Philadelphia Flyers announced that they open their 42nd National Hockey League season on Saturday, October 11, against the New York Rangers at the Wachovia Center. In addition, the National Hockey League announced that the Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings and the San Jose Sharks will be the Flyers' interconference "at-large" opponents this season. The Flyers will play each of those teams twice, and every other Western Conference team once.

The complete 2008-09 schedule will be released on Thursday, July 17 at noon.

[BigEd76]

Desjardins is back as a "player development" coach

[QB Eagles]

Clarke offered Desjardins a coaching job immediately after he retired, but he turned it down. I guess he's had enough time off now.

[ice grillin you]

im all over that opener

[DH]

The NHL today will release its '08-09 regular-season schedule, in which the league will "return to the schedule format it employed" in '03-04. Teams will play "24 games against their four divisional foes (compared to 32 the past three seasons), 40 against the rest of the conference and 18 against the other conference." The season opens October 4-5 with a "pair of two-game sets in Europe" featuring Senators-Penguins in Stockholm and Rangers-Lightning in Prague

[BigEd76]

full Flyers schedule

Western conference (besides home-and-home with COL/LA/SJ)

HOME = Calgary, Dallas, Edmonton, Minnesota, Nashville, Phoenix
AWAY = Anaheim, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, St. Louis, Vancouver

[Rome]

You can forget Ryan Miller signing with the Flyers next year.

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl/news/news.aspx?id=4165846