Good article from Kevin but I disagree? This whole rebuild is predicated on the squeaky wheels revealing themselves and being summarily subtracted. Frost/Farabee last year. Provorov and Hayes before them. This C picture is just terrible and it's never been more obvious. That's actually good! Why?

I'm a big #BonkWonk

I think he'll be hard-pressed to get a better return for Risto than he got for Laughton tbh. If Briere finds a way to get a 1st for Risto given his cap hit, injury concerns, and the fact that a bunch of NHL teams just straight up don't like him as a player, he did a great job.

Welp. Start making some trades, Flyers

That late chop on Vladar would be called if it’s against WSH. Flyers are a young team so they don’t get those calls but Ovi’s team certainly would. NHL officiating is so lame.

Why wouldn’t you challenge that??

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What in the hell is Hartnell talking about?

Flyers For Sale: RHD Ristolainen RHD Juulsen C (sure) / W Grundstrom LW Deslauriers RW Hathaway

Rick Tocchet should fine the Flyers forwards for every time they pass out of the slot.

Grundstrom for a 1st.

Michkov on RW?! Delay the Tocchet execution.

Hartnell came out of the gate firing with the word vomit.

It really doesn't. They have 3 NHL caliber centers in the entire organization. Zegras, as of today, is not one of them. They've continued to play him at W bc he's had success there (w/Dvorak) and they're giving him TK too jump start some offense coming out of the break. Enough fake outrage.

The NHL has always been bad at reading the American zeitgeist. Every Awards show hosted by an actor who hasn't been relevant for a decade with a band that peaked twice as long ago. Running back the same Winter Classic format again and again. The TV deals. They lose every popularity contest.

The one thing I will say for hardcore MAGA is at least they own it. People like Seravalli, who clearly voted for Trump but won't own it, are just fucking sociopaths who just want to see Trump burn it all down bc they struggle to exist in a society. If you're going to be an asshole, at least own it.

Trades are already happening in the NHL out of the Olympic break and today we’re looking at the sneaky guys who could be useful at the deadline bleacherreport.com/articles/254...

Such a shame the Flyers squandered SO MANY points heading into the break. While there's plenty of blame to go around, had Sam Ersson been a passable BUG, the Flyers would be firmly in the Metro race with Crosby headed to IR.

Yeah, I've been watching most games this season and attending a few, but I have pretty major ick right now and little interest. I was well aware of what hockey culture was like, but this has all felt like a much more open and explicit signal of "we don't want you here." Message received.

I’m sure a LOT of 🇺🇸 feel this way today. The # of folks who will boycott the NHL will be much higher than post-Kaepernick NFL bc most of America already doesn’t care about hockey! The NHL becoming a toxic brand could be a big problem for a 2nd tier league w/slim margins and a rapidly rising cap.

Did hockey just become NASCAR (derogatory)?

Just realizing what a shot in the arm youth hockey is going to get from middle America MAGA. Ugh.

What a fucking bizarre world we live in WTF

Reid: Attention all Maga trolls. Your bullshit is not welcome here. And to paraphrase one of my favorite actors in the world, Robert De Niro: Fuck y'all

I reluctantly but really re-engaged with Twitter just while covering the Olympics, feeling like I had little choice if I wanted to keep up with such a huge tournament. I'm remembering today why I disengaged so much the last couple of years. It fucking sucks over there.

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

Leonnig: "The whistleblower says in Dec. 2025, when there was a mass shooting at Brown U, Kash was on his FBI director jet in FL & there was only one other available jet, but Patel ordered it to be put on standby for another team. That meant an evidence review team had to drive through the night..."

I see all the Pick Me girls (giant dorks who are now NHL “insiders”) are out in force making sure all the Cool Sports Guys know they’re cool too. I hope they let you sit at the popular kids table at lunch, Frank!!

if you loved watching women's hockey at the Olympics, keep up that energy with the PWHL / NCAA. the PWHL resumes on Thursday, with games streaming live on youtube in the United States. schedule here: www.thepwhl.com/en/schedule

Shayna is one of the best writers hockey has to offer.

This isn't just a standard 'winning team visits the WH in a planned visit' -- it's the state of the damn union, as the NHL resumes. The problem isn't that the president called the team (he should have!) it's that the gold-medal winning women's team was the punch line, instead of being celebrated.

3 weeks before the games began, Matthew Tkachuk and the defending Stanley Cup champions stood behind Trump, dressed like Trump, as he bashed occupied Minnesota, THE STATE OF HOCKEY. If you’re surprised that Team USA is overwhelmingly MAGA, you just weren’t paying attention. This is who hockey is.

Does that make what the Men’s Olympic team did right? Hell no! They should absolutely be condemned. But this isn’t something that’s been hidden. The NHL is awfully conservative and even with the influx of fans from Heated Rivalry, it will remain that way, as sad as it is.

Genuinely surprised by how many people are / were surprised by how awfully conservative the NHL players are and how much the fanbase is as well. These are things that are not easy to miss if you see the comment section of any teams post about LGBTQ pride, celebrating a non Christian holiday, etc.

Would you trade Flyers D Rasmus Ristolainen and RW Bobby Brink *or* C Noah Cates for Red Wings prospect C Nate Danielson, AHL / 9th overall, 2023? 🤔

Absolutely LOL'd at this one, @charlieoconn.bsky.social Flyers social media is such an idiotic echo chamber and their current hyper fixation is Rick Tocchet. Even during USA-CAN these joyless weirdos were making Tocchet jokes bc they can't make original thoughts. It's so damn weird.

How are people surprised by the US Men's team being outwardly MAGA? They are led by Tkachuk, who is openly MAGA and insisted that the Panthers dress like Trump, whom he praised effusively at the WH just a few weeks ago. Eichel went to a MAGA rally!

Flyers will have some interesting NCAA guys next year, even w/Martone turning pro. It sounds like Nesbitt will go NCAA. I wonder if Murtagh will leave BU like Amico did. Also wonder if "2nd tier" programs like (defending nat'l champ) W. Michigan will become more popular than the BU/BCs of the world.

Exactly. Hockey didn't change yesterday, it only showed itself. Hockey culture is ultra toxic. If you're not regularly in local rinks and locker rooms, the MAGAness of Team USA was probably shocking, but for those of that have grown up in the sport it was par for the course. Hockey is broken.

I posted mainly to get likes from Philly sports fans. C’mon.

Tyrese Maxey came into Minnesota tonight and was by far the best player on the floor in a game where Anthony Edwards also played. Very impressive, including a career highlight-reel poster dunk.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Shout out Amber Coffman on the Closing Ceremony!

I do love the Blade Angels. They are so exquisitely anti-MAGA just simply being their awesome selves. And I want to buy Ted Liu a beer

Of course. Ugh.

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

The SOG weren’t as lopsided in the 2026 final as they were in 1980 semi (42-28 v. 39-16) but I can’t help but think both games were largely determined by the two HOFers not on the ice: Vladislav Tretiak in 80 and Sidney Crosby in 26.

When I was 14 I was a power skating camp counselor in Hollydell, NJ when Guy Gaudreau was the manager of that rink. He would bring his 6 y/o son into the coaches’ locker room and make a counselor cart Johnny around the ice bw sessions. I drew the short straw and had to do it all week.

Connor Hellebuyck, man. I love it when an otherwise-elite player drives a stake through the heart of a "choker" narrative, and he did that in the best way today. What a game he played.

Thats the most touching sports moment I can remember for some time