No one will ever confuse the magic in Simon Gagne's to what Riley Cote had for hands, but the two ex-Flyers share 3 things in common: 1- they exuded class 2- they were gentlemen off the ice 3- they were always the first, two players to get asked for appearances and charity. Really, good teammates. People don't always see that. Even though Cote was playing last year - only 7 games under
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   Leafs Camp I'm sure you've all seen this by now, but this morning on my commute into the big city I found myself wishing I was doing just about anything else in the world as a leak in the air conditioning system forced a full subway car's worth of travelers into half a subway car. I even allowed myself to dream that I was getting ready for the 2010-11 NHL season and imagined what my day might look like. I then realized that there's a reason (one of many) that I am in fact not getting ready for the 2010-11 NHL season, and that's that all of the Flyers are probably going to work out harder today than I ever have in my life. And then for the rest of the week too. To get ready for the Leafs training camp in 1962 would have been pushing it for me. Sitting at a desk can suck, and you rarely know when you've accomplished anything. But when it comes down to it, it's a pretty simple thing to get paid for as long as you can handle the fake stress you create for yourself. It's basically like being a night time security guard, just staring at a screen all day. Except people stop by to piss you off all the time
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One of the main reasons why the Flyers think they can make another run deep in the playoffs this year without a top-notch goaltender is the club's off-season strategy of trying to strengthen the blueline. It's debatable whether the club managed the salary cap properly when it came to assembling the seven (and possibly eight) defensemen it will carry into opening night. Nevertheless it is also
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About 2 weeks from now, a bunch of prospects that will be available in next summer’s draft will participate in an orientation camp in Toronto . This camp will feature 4 sessions in which the NHL will test out some unique rule changes, and of course scouts will get a chance to look at some players in action. There’s a nice article about it on NHL.com, about the entire event. I’d like to make a few predictions of how each rule change would impact the game. Some things are pretty obvious, because we’ve heard of them and seen them at different levels. Anyway, here goes: Hybrid icing rule : There’s no explanation in the article I linked you to, but I read somewhere that in the case when a defenseman will obviously beat out a forward to touch up for icing, the refs will just blow play dead and save a few seconds. I like this because it saves on wasted time, while doesn’t cut out those exciting mad dashes when two guys are racing neck and neck to a potentially iced puck. No line change for offside : This isn’t as bad as no line change for an icing, because the teams isn’t penned into their own zone. However, this will prevent teams from taking intentional offsides after a long shift in the offensive zone. A lost face-off could lead to a quick transition against tired bodies. Still, that situation isn’t extremely common, so I think this will have minal impact
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Not to sound like Eddie Vedder here, but I’m still alive and well. Haven’t updated in almost a month. The Gagne news crushed me, and there wasn’t anything I could say about it that wasn’t being said elsewhere. There hasn’t been much else to write about with our salary cap situation and such. I’ve been
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Flyers goaltender Johan Backlund may have misunderstood the timetable for his recovery from off-season hip surgery but his comments to the European media were absolutely not a case of mistranslation. In addition to the report on EuroFlyers' blog, this report Swedish newspaper Dagbladet unambiguously quotes Backlund as saying the exact same thing that appeared in the first English report. D
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Real fans know a good hockey name when they see one. It's just something you're born with, like AIDS if your mom is a crack whore. No disrespect. The Flyers have had some doozies grace the back of the Philadelphia sweater over the years. Names like Derrick Smith, Jason Smith, and Steve Smith. But those three just lost out on making this list of the Flyers top 10 names of all time: 10. Mike Knuble - Looks good, sounds good. Hell, probably tastes good
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Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider released the following statement on former Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Wayne Stephenson, who passed away at the age of 65 on June 22. “On behalf of the Philadelphia Flyers, I would like to personall...
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Needless to say, I was surprised by Johan Backlund's interview with Euroflyers.com about being behind schedule in his rehab for his left hip. That account is summarized by Bill Meltzer elsewhere on this site. I asked Flyers' GM Paul Holmgren about Backlund's remarks and he was nothing short of flabbergasted. Holmgren told me that he feels Backlund's remarks were misinterpreted. The rep
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Photo/Getty When Team Canada took home the Gold medal at February’s Olympic Games in Vancouver, many fans around Philadelphia saw how that win benefited them and the captain of their hockey team Flyers captain Mike Richards took home the Gold, along with fellow Canadian and teammate Chris Pronger and after that achievement, the two came back home and had a new-found outlook on the season. Richards, 25, at that point in the season was going through a media battle that trickled down into the city. It wasn’t a secret that their captain was in constant battle with the team’s media, so a trip to Vancouver might have been a saving grace. CSNPhilly’s and 610WIP’s hockey legend Al Morganti spoke with me in length about Richards and his leadership for this respected Flyers organization. An organization he’s been around for over 25 years. “I’m not sure if the Olympics played a major role in the leadership, I just think it’s because he’s such a great and gritty player,” said Morganti. “I almost think he’s underappreciated by the city and fans, that they don’t realize how good this guy is
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Richards’ leadership no longer in question