The Flyers pre-season campaign had been hardly stellar up until last night. Plenty of penalties taken, losses, and overall stale play at times pointed to a rough start for our Flyers. However, after a glimmer of hope in a close overtime loss to Toronto on Saturday, the Flyers came back to the Wachovia

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Last night made for some good drama. Beyond the fact that the Flyers came out and played their first full 60 minute effort, the guys who ended up on the scorecard are the ones you'd expect to be showing their goods at this point of the preseason.

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Last year a number of teams held special events around retiring a number for their best players. So it has me thinking about the Flyers that have their numbers retired and who could be next.

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Just in case you don't speak French let me translate this article from the homepage of the Shawinigan Cataractes of the QMJHL: "The Philadelphia Flyers have returned David Labrecque (pictured above, cooly stretching in a Flyers windbreaker) to juniors after deciding he looks a little too much like the French-Canadian version of Michael Cera to be ready for professional hockey. Labrecque will hone in on his skills, and his comedy, with Shawinigan this season as the Cataractes try not to fall behind the league after losing their 5 best players from last year. 'I used to love Arrested Development, so it's got nothing to do with that,' the possibly confused general manager of the Flyers, Paul Holmgren, told me via phone. 'And then Juno was alright but I did not enjoy that movie where he was running around New York City like a God-damned asshole all night

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Here's the lines from today's Flyers practice: Gagne-Richards-Pyorala Hartnell-Carter-Briere Carcillo-POwe-Laperriere (on wing) JVR-Giroux-Asham Cote-Betts-Kaspar This last unit getting little ice: Ward-Laliberte-Bellamy Ward did not impress at all vs. Detroit ...

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I wish I could tell you something about last night's game. But I don't live in Philly so I didn't see the game. From what I see of everyone else's recaps, the box score, and the bright orange pictures it looks like it would have been a fun one to watch. A couple days ago over on Puck Daddy they ran an article that told us Time Warner customers not to worry because NHL Center Ice would be up and running before October 1st.

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