Philadelphia Flyers Season Preview: Defense

Defense wins championships.  Well, maybe that’s why the Flyers have not won a Stanley Cup since 1975. Defense is well-known as the Flyers’ weakest position.  They have struggled to get good defensemen since their establishment in 1967.  They have never drafted a star defenseman.  Luca Sbisa will hopefully change that in a couple of years, but he will be in the WHL for a year or two. So instead, I shall do a defensive preview of the team to show you what is in store this year:   Top Three Defensemen (in no particular order) Kimmo Timonen, 33, $6.333 million Timonen was acquired in the brilliant trade of the first-round pick from the Forsberg trade back to Nashville.  Timonen has been everything the Flyers had hoped and more.  He was an All-Star last year, and clearly the best defenseman on the Flyers’ roster.  Part of Philly's downfall in last year's playoffs was because of the hole left when Timonen went out with a blood ... (link)