Flyers coach John Stevens tried to downplay it, saying Arron Asham had fresher legs. But when you bench your highest-paid player for important shifts in the third period of a one-goal game, alarms go off -- especially when that player is Danny Briere, who has missed 52 games with groin injuries. “We spotted Ash in there a little bit,” Flyers coach John Stevens said, downplaying his decision to bench Briere in the Flyers’ 4-2 loss to the Florida Panthers Thursday night in Philadelphia

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