Tim Saunders previews the upcoming Flyers-Montreal Game 5 at the Wachovia Center on May 24, 2010.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
My Kind of Town
Hard to focus tonight. I'm already thinking about Chicago's Miracle Mile. And how neat it's going to be to have a Stanley Cup Final in two, very large American cities. Yeah, that's the ticket. "Well, I mean the one thing we don't want to do is look past Montreal," Danny Briere scolded me when I suggested it's hard not to think ahead here. "We can't control what happened on the o
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One More Win
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The Philadelphia Flyers are one win away from their first Stanley Cup Final in 13 years. It doesn’t feel like it, does it? I’m starting to get more and more Cup Crazy myself, and tonight’s game will be huge. The Flyers came out Saturday and weathered the storm. They let the Canadiens come out skating
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Flyers Look to Advance from Home Base
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(Philadelphia, PA) - One more victory against the Montreal Canadiens and the Philadelphia Flyers will earn the sixth Stanley Cup Final appearance in franchise history. And unlike the previous two playoff rounds, when they closed out their oppon...
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Flyers on the Brink
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 Leino!!!!! (Courtesy: YardBarker) The Flyers went back to kicking the Canadiens asses in Game 4. They won 3-0, posting their 3rd shutout in 4 games. This game had it’s fair share of memorable moments. Flyers fans back home were pretty charged up even before the game started. Not because we knew the team would come out playing much, much better than Game 3.
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All Your Habs Are Belong To Us
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You know it. We know it. Your fans know it. Kali-maaaaaah!!! All your hearts are belong to us. Finish him!!! (Jon is a Flyer fan running the #10 ranked Flyers blog, by people in the know, over at The Flying P .
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Flyers Playoff Gameday: The Orange and The Black
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If you have tickets to tonight's Flyers-Montreal game, I hate you. Tonight could be the night that the Philadelphia Flyers make it back to the Stanley Cup Finals. Thinking about that since the rubbing the Flyers gave the Canadiens on Saturday afternoon has got all of Philadelphia buzzing. What looked like a lost season at the midway mark has turned into one win away from the Finals. The Flyers seem to have found "it". That being the belief in sacrifice, in their teammates, coaches and gameplan. Not one player looks out of synch, or out of focus. The Flyers look to be set on their mission, no matter who they are playing. A team that was riding as high as Montreal was has been getting embarrassed in the Eastern Conference Final. Frankly, I didn't expect it. I didn't expect Michael Leighton to post 3 shutouts in the first 4 games. Nor did I expect Ville Leino to compete for the Conn Smyth. I defintely did not expect Jeff Carter's broken foot and Ian Laperriere's bruised brain to be ok by the midway point of this series. But here we are, a complete game away from going back to the Finals for the first time since 1997. I wish I could look at this from a more analytical point of view, but my fandom is taking hold of me. I love every player and everything that they do. I have absolutely no qualms about this team and the year that they've given me. You never know when you'll get back to this point of a hockey season. It's so taxing just to reach the ECF, let alone be on the verge of winning the East. Whether you've been here for years or this is the first time tuning in, enjoy the show that this rag tag bunch of miscreants is about to put on after Kate Smith and Lauren Hart blow the roof off the Wach. Enjoy this time, Flyers fans. It's truly unbelievable how far they've come in a matter of weeks. Montreal will not roll over. They have battled just as hard as the Flyers, if not harder. I don't expect them to fold up shop tonight. They have too much pride to just give up. This game, I think ,will mimic game 4. Philly's four lines will grind away at the Habs effort and will eventually lead to some odd man rushes that Philly must capitalize on. The early buzz in the building could be enough to get a greasy one on the board first, something that the fans would go bat-shit crazy for. If Carcillo is still scratched, I'd tell him to go out during warmups and just throw himself at the glass just to whip up the lower bowl into a frothing mess. So tonight, Flyers fans, let's remember where we've been this year. Let's remember the tests, the questions and the doubts of the 2009-2010 season. Let's recall that with this team, nothing is over until it's over
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Laperriere's Return a "Little Miracle"
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(Montreal, Quebec) - Upon returning following a brain contusion, Ian Laperriere proved to be a major headache for the Montreal Canadiens.
Flyers Playoff Gameday: Game 5 vs. Canadiens
MINI-PREVIEW (9:15 AM) The Philadelphia Flyers know what they have to do tonight to close out their Eastern Conference Finals series with the Montreal Canadiens and reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1997. The club played nearly a perfect game in shutting out Montreal, 3-0, in Game 4 and has outscored the Habs, 12-0, over the course of its three victories in the series. Wi
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Flyers Uping the Ante
You know you're in for a treat when you're reading a press release that includes the words "Lauren Hart" and "dirt bike." In anticipation of a possible Conference securing win tonight in Philadelphia the Flyers organization has pulled out all the stops to get the fans as crazy as possible come 7:05, and it's going to go a little something like this.  - The first 35,000 fans to arrive at the Wachovia Center tonight will receive life size Brian Gionta garden gnomes. - All beer concessions will include Montreal Export, which will cost only 2 Euros a bottle. - Lauren Hart is going to sing the National Anthem from the top of a ramp that she'll use to help propel her and her dirt bike over a party bus and through a ring of fire after the song's completion. - There are going to be 450 little kids skating around during the pregame, each wearing the jersey of a one-time Flyer in the exact model that that Flyer wore. - In the same vain there are going to be some special alumni in the audience, including Shawn Antoski, Mark LaForest, Kerry Huffman, Mike Comrie, Patrick Sharp, and Paul Holmgren. - Trent Klatt will go head to head with prospect Luke Pither at center ice in a crab fries eating competition - the first one to eat 2,010 crab fries wins.
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