More players assigned to Phantoms

According to the Twitter feeds of Anthony SanFilippo and Tim Panaccio, the following players have been sent from the Flyers to the Phantoms: Backlund, Bourdon, Testwuide, Holmstrom, Gustafsson, Laliberte, and Kalinski.

Andreas Nodl, meanwhile, is staying with the Flyers, as is Sergei Bobrovsky. With the possibility that Ian Laperriere and Michael Leighton will be starting the NHL season on the LTIR, that's a significant tip of the cap to both those players.

EDIT TO ADD: Backlund and Laliberte have to clear waivers in order to be sent down. I hadn't realized that Laliberte would have to clear waivers.

Phantoms lose third preseason game, 5-4, in Syracuse

For the second night in a row, the online radio stream didn't work. However, I did find a couple of Syracuse Crunch-related Twitter feeds that kept me updated on the game. Such as this one:

@SyracuseCrunch Syracuse Crunch win 5-4 v. Adirondack Phantoms! Bonino named first star and Syvret gets the 2nd star.

I think we're going to regret not having Syvret on this team anymore. On the other hand, we have a huge logjam on the Flyers blueline. He probably stands a better chance of getting an NHL shot in Anaheim's system, as compared to ours.

Anyway, the Phantoms are now 0-3, or 0-2-1-0 if you want to separate OTL and SOLs from regulation losses. They were all close games on the scoreboard, which is good, but I'm looking forward to seeing the team register a W.

Phantoms Preseason Results to date

The Phantoms have played two preseason games vs. Albany so far. The first one was a 2-1 OT loss to the Albany Devils on Friday night. The second one was a 4-2 loss, with the fourth Albany goal going into the empty net.

I haven't been online a lot in the past couple of days, so I'm going to have to do some legwork to track down preseason coverage. However, I did find a nice writeup on Zac Rinaldo, a Phantom who should help make this a pretty colorful season. :-) CLICK HERE for Broad Street Hockey's take on his performance so far.

The Phantoms wrap up a three-games-in-three-nights stint in Syracuse tonight. Here's to improving our preseason record with a win!

Update on the Phantoms Training Camp Roster

According to THIS ARTICLE on the Post-Star site, there will be 19 players on tryout contracts joining the Phantoms who were sent to Adirondack from Flyers training camp. The roster will be as follows:

Phantoms training camp roster

Forwards (20): Greg Moore, Luke Pither, Matt Clackson, Garrett Klotz, Pat Maroon, Tye McGinn, Zac Rinaldo, Andrew Rowe, Shane Harper and Stefan Legein, Justin Bowers, Andrew Martin, David Volpe, Brett Wilson, Josh Fauth, Josh Heidinger, Guilio Scandella, Brett Watson, Chase Watson, Jason Williams.

Defensemen (14): Chad Denny, Jesse Dudas, Cullen Eddy, Dan Jancevski, Logan Stephenson, J.P. Testwuide, Brad Cole, Patrick Cusack, Thomas Dignard, Jim Driscoll, Mike Gershon, Dan Henningson, Peter MacDougall.

Goalies (3): Nic Riopel, Brian Stewart, Brad Phillips.

Cut-down day arrives: Players reassigned to Phantoms and junior teams

CLICK HERE for the article about player reassignments (or releases from tryout contracts) on the Flyers site.

Flyers reduce training camp roster

Flyers trim roster by 28 players

Sunday, 09.26.2010 / 3:33 PM / News

Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that they have reduced their training camp roster by 28 players, according to General Manager Paul Holmgren. Eighteen players have been assigned to the team's American Hockey League affiliate, the Adirondack Phantoms.  Five players have been returned to their junior teams, and five others were released from tryout contracts.


The following players were assigned to the Phantoms and will report to the team's training camp later this week: forwards Greg Moore, Luke Pither, Matt Clackson, Garrett Klotz, Pat Maroon, Tye McGinn, Zac Rinaldo, Andrew Rowe, Shane Harper and Stefan Legein; defensemen Chad Denny, Jesse Dudas, Cullen Eddy, Dan Jancevski, Logan Stephenson, and J.P. Testwuide; and goaltenders Nic Riopel and Brian Stewart.

The following players have been returned to their junior teams: D Ricard Blidstrand (Regina, WHL); F Michael Chaput (Lewiston, QMJHL); F David Labrecque (Shawinigan, QMJHL); D Brendan Ranford (Kamloops, WHL) and D Tyler Hostetter (Erie, OHL).  In addition, F Justin Dowling and F Blake Gal were released from their Amateur Tryout Agreements and will also return to their junior teams, while forward Michael Ryan and defensemen Ryan Lannon and Joe Piskula were released from their Professional Tryout Agreements.

The moves leave the Flyers training camp roster at 37 players (20 forwards, 12 defensemen and five goaltenders). 

Phantoms site training camp coverage and radio station

The Phantoms web page has got some coverage of Flyers Training Camp HERE.

Also, WNYQ will broadcast Phantoms games again this season. Their "Listen Live" link is now active again. I'm pretty glad about that, as I really grew to like that station and was disappointed when the cybercast went offline during the summer. HERE is the link to listen to the station.

2010 Flyers Training Camp Roster

The Flyers begin Training Camp on September 17 with the unveiling of their new road jersey. They will be on the ice for the first time on September 18.

CLICK HERE for the PDF version of the Training Camp Guide.

Here is the roster, sorted by jersey number. Sorry if the formatting gets goofed up... it's a challenge to get the spacing to behave when copying and pasting from a spreadsheet. (I'm trying to look up the right technique even as I type, but I haven't found it yet.)


Nbr Last Name First Name Position
3 Bartulis       Oskars  D
5 Coburn  Braydon  D
6 O'Donnell       Sean D
8 Walker    Matt D
9 Guerin  Bill RW
10 Laliberte David RW
11 Betts Blair LW
13 Carcillo Daniel LW
14 Laperriere Ian C/RW
15 Nodl Andreas RW
17 Carger Jeff C 
18 Richards Mike C
19 Hartnell Scott LW
20 Pronger Chris     D 
21 van Riemsdyk James    RW
22 Leino    Ville    RW
24 Ryan     Michael   C
25 Carle    Matt     D
26 Jancevski Dan      D
27 Gustafsson Erik     D
28 Giroux   Claude   RW
29 Maroon   Patrick   LW
30 Backlund Johan    G
32 Moore    Greg     C
33 Boucher   Brian    G
34 Holmstrom    Ben      C
35 Bobrovsky Sergei   G
36 Powe     Darroll   RW
37 Kalinski Jon      C
38 Harper   Shane    RW
39 Testwuide Mike     RW
40 Pither   Luke     C
41 Meszaros Andreas   D
42 Chaput   Michael  C
43 Bourdon  Marc-Andre D
44 Timonen  Kimmo    D
45 Shelley  Jody     D
46 Marshall Kevin    D
47 Wellwood Eric     LW
48 Briere   Danny    C
49 Leighton Michael   G
50 Blidstrand Ricard   D
51 Rinaldo  Zac      C
52 Rowe     Andrew   LW
53 McGinn   Tye      LW
54 Legein   Stefan   RW
55 Hostetter Tyler    D
56 Manning   Neil     D
57 Stephenson Logan    D
58 Lehtivuori Joonas   D
59 Dowling   Justin   C
60 Labrecque David    C
61 O'Connor Ryan     D
62 Eddy     Cullen   D
63 Clackson Matt     LW
64 Klotz    Garrett  LW
65 Testwuide J.P.     D
67 Stewart Brian    G
70 Bissonette Matt     LW
71 Gal       Blake    RW
72 Ranford   Brendan  LW
73 Morrison Adam     G
74 Riopel    Nic      G
76 Dudas    Jesse    D
93 Zherdev  Nikolai RW