Hello Broad Street Hockey faithful, my name is Jacob Russell and I am the newest features writer covering everyone’s favorite hockey headache.
Despite growing up just under an hour away from Toronto, I’ve been a Flyers fan for as long as I could remember. My first hockey memory was throwing my Flyers hat across the room when I found out that the novice hockey team I would be playing for, wore blue and white.
That was the first step in a long journey that took me from arena-to-arena for my entire childhood, and then late into my teens, until I realized that being a responsible 2-way center was probably not going to lead me to professional career.