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The wrong mid-summer trade is being criticized three years later.  By Joe Darrah At the MLB trading deadline during the summer of 2011, the Philadelphia Phillies were well on their way to a fifth consecutive National League East title. Roy ...

The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that they have signed forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to an NHL contract, according to general manager Ron Hextall. A native of Paris, France, the 29-year-old Bellemare spent the last five seasons with Skelleftea of the Swedish Hockey League and ...

Report From Philadelphia Flyers The Philadelphia Flyers have signed 5-10, 194-lb D Kimmo Timonen to a one-year contract extension, according to general manager Ron Hextall. Timonen, 39 (3/18/1975), will return for his eighth season with the Flyers. He was acquired from the Nashville ...

Report From Philadelphia Flyers The Philadelphia Flyers today announced a two-year affiliation agreement with the Reading Royals of the ECHL.  The Royals will join the Lehigh Valley Phantoms as a Flyers minor league affiliate, which gives the Flyers an entirely ...

Report From NashvillePredators.com Nashville, Tenn. – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has hired 2006 Stanley Cup-winning coach Peter Laviolette as the second head coach in team history and signed him to a ...

Report From PhiladelphiaFlyers.com The Philadelphia Flyers today named Paul Holmgren President and Ron Hextall General Manager. In his new role, Holmgren will oversee both the business and hockey operations of the Flyers and will report directly to Flyers Chairman Ed ...

The National Hockey League announced today that Flyers center Claude Giroux has been named a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy, which is given annually to “the player judged most valuable to his team.” Giroux joins Pittsburgh C Sidney Crosby and Anaheim ...

By Adam Kimelman, PhiladelphiaFlyers.com NEW YORK — The New York Rangers didn’t really lean on Henrik Lundqvist to win a game for them at any point through the first six of their Eastern Conference First Round series against the Philadelphia ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, PhiladelphiaFlyers.com PHILADELPHIA – Steve Mason had just given up a goal, so it might have been an odd time for him to acknowledge a hockey crowd chanting his name. Usually, it’s done derisively after a goalie lets ...

By Anthony SanFilippo, PhiladelphiaFlyers.com NEW YORK – The Flyers played perhaps their best first period of the first Round – and it cost them. “We lost the game in the first period,” said coach Craig Berube. “It was all about ...