THIS IS IT! YOU SHOULD TOTALLY BUY THIS!

THIS IS IT! YOU SHOULD TOTALLY BUY THIS!

As previously rumored but now officially announced at the Season Ticket Holders Town Hall, the Flyers will have a third jersey this year. Broad Street Hockey notes that while this year’s “Reebok catalog previously indicated that the Flyers would be sporting a new alternate jersey this coming year,” Flyers COO of business operations (who’s quickly taking on more responsibility in the organization) Shawn Tilger’s confirmation at the Town Hall is the first official word on it.

According to a recap post on Hockey Forums:

“Finally we had Shawn Tilger (Senior VP) and Homer. They were asked about the new 3rd Jersey and said that it would have some orange and some black in it.”

That is all we know. Main color? No idea. Design? Your guess is as good as mine. That’s all we know about the third jersey.

But we now know this about the draft:

“Apparently the draft went over very well with the NHL this year and Bettman loved the booing and attributed it to our passion.”

Guys, he likes it, so we can’t boo him anymore. We have to find something he doesn’t like and do that to appropriately display our distaste for Bettman. Ideas?

There was also this from the Town Hall:

“Finally there was a complaint about the Richards and Carter trades to Homer and how it is hard to watch them skate the Cup [Editor’s note: I didn’t know Kyle was a season ticket holder]. Homer said that both trades were made for different reasons (he did not specify those reasons BTW). He said that if we still had them here it doesn’t mean that they would have won Cups here as we do not have Quick or Doughty on our team. He said that Simmonds and Jake and Cooter could very well go on to win multiple cups with us.”

Or they could have won multiple cups in LA already too, I GET IT.

Additionally, a few folks who attended the Town Hall tell us that Berube took some good-natured – but revealing – digs at Scott Hartnell. When asked if the Flyers were serious about being a more disciplined team, Berube mentioned that they got rid of Hartnell and Steve Downie. Then, a #Hartnelldown jab where Chief joked that Hartsy would’ve been better off checking somebody than spending all of his time on the ice. More from the message board recap of the event:

“Getting back to Umberger, Berube is really excited about his skating and the improvement that he will be over Hartnell in that area. Berube told us that we didn’t help the Hartnell situation by paying him every time he fell down (which of course got a chuckle from the crowd).”

Of course, Berube then reached back into Flyers ethos for this next one:

https://twitter.com/afetherolf/status/486646820987473920

He may actually be right, as much as it pains me to say.

And finally, also from the message board recap, the simultaneously perfect description of mongrel fans and Steve Coates:

“There were some fan complaints about game worn jerseys being given out at fan appreciation day and that those should be reserved for STHs only. There was another odd complaint by an older retired guy who says he and his group of friends attend about 10 away games a year and stay at the team hotel (so that they can try to interact with the players). He said that they love drinking with Coatesy at the bar (Homer and Tlger said they were not surprised about that) but when the players came around the team PR guy was restricting them from interacting. He told Tilger to tell his PR guy to cool it. Tilger said he would have a word (I actually don’t blame the PR guy as it sounded a bit stalkerish to me).”

Yes, that is stalkerish. But I like the effort.

Please take the message board recap and quotes from the event with a grain of salt, since it’s all second-hand information.