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I'd Like a Richards, with a Side of Richards, and a Richards

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Mike Richards deserves every article and post written about him today, and you should read them all. Because when you finally silence thousands of critics who have been questioning you for almost an entire two year period you should get at least your day, if not week, in the sun. When Scott Gomez scored I know you saw the same thing I saw. You saw the entire thing fall apart. Suddenly the game was tied, then the Habs won in overtime. High on their comeback fuel the Canadiens win Game 6 at home and then Game 7 is just too little margin for error to win the Conference. And the Habs go to the Cup Final

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Meltzer's Musings: 5-25-10

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Somehow, some way this underachieving Philadelphia Flyers team has become the club people expected to see all season. Over the course of the last six weeks, the entire club has demonstrated a level of grit and determination that Philly fans have longed to see since the team fell just short of advancing to the Finals in 2004. No one doubted this team's talent. In fact, I would say that people's

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Inside Flyers’ 4-2 series clincher over Habs!

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FLYERS 4, CANADIENS 2 Taking the lead from their once-embattled captain Mike Richards, the Flyers counterpunched their way to clinching the Eastern Conference title with a strong Game 5 victory that ended the Canadiens’ resilient playoff run. Richards scored a game-tying shorthanded goal in the first period, assisted on Jeff Carter’s second-period goal that made it 3-1 and assisted on Carter’s empty-netter with 23 seconds to play to give the Flyers their series-clinching win. “Richie was unbelievable,” said Flyers right wing Ian Laperriere, who made a key block on PK Subban while the Flyers were killing off Chris Pronger’s double-minor for high-sticking midway through the third period. “He’s been unbelievable all year. To carry this team through all the ups and downs we had takes a great leader. He leads by example and tonight was another example. He went through everybody

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Thursday's game was terrible from the Flyers' standpoint; there is simply no other way to put it. Still, I was not worried. It was disappointing, sure, but:1) I did not honestly think Leighton would never let in a goal, and it seems that for the Flyers, allowing the first goal can be poisonous. I couldn't blame him for much of that game, either, because he did not have his usual stalwart

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