Simon Gagne Skates With Team Today

Philadelphia Flyers winger Simon Gagne skated and practice with his teammates today in Voorhees N.J. at the Flyers Skate Zone. Gagne, 29, originally was supposed to miss six-to-eight weeks is still at least two weeks away from being able to return to game action with the Flyers. Gagne was extremely satisfied with the results of his session. “I see the difference right away. When I’m skating I feel all of my muscles firing like they should be,” Gagne said

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Gagne practices with Flyers

Flyers left wing Simon Gagne, sidelined since Oct. 25 with groin and hernia issues, participated in practice today and skated on a line with Claude Giroux and Dan Carcillo. Gagne wore a yellow "injury" jersey, so he is not yet cleared to play, but he participated in the full practice, which ended with a hard skate. The Flyers' other line combinations were: Jareed Ross Jeff Carter Danny Briere James van Riemsdyk Mike Richards Mika Pyorala Riley Cote/Jon Kalinski Ian Laperriere Andreas Nodl Also, goaltender Ray Emery showed up at Monday's practice wearing old school goalie equipment, complete with plain, brown pads, brown waffle blocker with white circles and a brown catching glove.

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Absent for a while

So I go on a trip for over a week and I come back and the Flyers have crapped the bed. The boys in Orange have managed to win one game and loss five. What happened? My wife not being a Flyers fan has been no help and my kids are too young to be able to explain let alone stay up that late. So I don't know if they took a mental hiatus during the road trip. I was hoping for more on the road trip and they should have picked up 6 points not 4. Then the two games over the weekend were not where they needed to be

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Johnny B. Good

The bandwagon is picking up steam... John Stevens is on the hot seat. Or, at least, we'd like to think so. Frank Seravalli's recent Philly.com article about Coach Steven's current situation is a decent glimpse into what's going on behind the scenes. After rattling off a 5-game win streak, the Flyers have squandered whatever progress they made by dropping 5 of their last 6 games, with at least 3 of those games being arguably winnable. Homer is frustrated. Stevens is frustrated

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