If the 2009-10 season ended today, who would be your choice for the Flyers' annual team awards? Here are my picks to date: Bobby Clarke Trophy (team MVP): Chris Pronger There really is no clear-cut pick so far this season, so Pronger would get almost by default. He has been the most consistent among the club's key players. If Jeff Carter continues his recent roll through the Olympic break a

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I don't really see any options that the Flyers have in acquiring a new bottom tier defenseman for the post-Olympic mini-season. If the best upcoming UFA that is kind of within our price range and is definitely on a seller come the deadline is Arron Ward I don't want him. I don't want him because he sucks as much as anyone we have right now and I don't want him because I always confuse him with Paul Mara for some reason. Plus how would we even get him? Ward, who would instantly become the oldest Flyers on the roster at 36, has a salary of $2.5M. We'd have to move some NHL salary and let's face it, who wants what we're going to offer in Daniel Carcillo or well…Daniel Carcillo.

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Sunday’s outcome was a tough pill to swallow. I feel that the Penguins stole that game in those last few minutes after a very unlucky bounce of the puck out of play by Timmonen. The Flyers played a great game, and I’m still bitter about some of those calls (the one disallowing that

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Coach Peter Laviolette has been a key catalyst in bringing his Philadelphia Flyers team out of the Eastern Conference basement. Laviolette came to Philadelphia to a team in disarray. A team that all of a sudden had no continuity and convinced some fans that this season was all but lost. The Flyers are 13-11-2 since ‘Lavvy’ took over the helm after John Stevens was relieved of his duties. That record, those 11 losses, are quite deceiving giving how this team has played over the past month and a half. Laviolette has instilled to this team a system that has made this Flyers team seem like a team that was picked to win the Stanley Cup by numerous hockey outlets. The Flyers have been scoring goals just as efficient as they are preventing them

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It's not surprising that over the past 3 years high definition radio has just not been able to keep up with HDTV. The days of families gathering around the squawk box and listening intently to an announcer say "they take it to the right, and now back to the left, and now to the right" may be gone forever. Maybe it should therefore come as no surprise that just like how people don't have any use for "radios" anymore, that they also don't have any use for people who work in them - not even to have them say, cut your veal parmigiana for you between periods. Which would explain why the chance to sit in the booth with Chris Therien and Tim Saunders while they call a game is only at $425 while the same experience with Jim Jackson and Keith Jones is already over $800 on the Flyers Charities on nhl.com.   I would have thought that sitting in the booth watching Chris and Tim do all the characters' voices while reading from their scripts, banging pots and pans, and honking horns would be way more exciting than watching JJ and KJ just sit there and talk, but maybe I'm just unwilling to let go of the past.   In the end though, if I was going to drop what will surely be over $1,000 by the time the auction ends to watch anyone call a a game it would be a stripper

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This is no joke... Richie thinks shaving his beard for the 1970's mustache is going to get him to produce more goals. Seriously? Quite honestly, I think superstitions are a bunch of crap. They're no substitute for hard work and consistency. I think more along the lines that you make your own luck. No mustache, special socks or pregame routine is going to improve your chances.

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