PREVIEW 11 AM EST After an eight-day holiday hiatus, the Flyers (22-8-5) begin their toughest stretch of the regular season, starting tonight. The club will begin a stretch of 9 of 10 games on the road with a game against the Northwest Division leading Vancouver Canucks (21-8-5).

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Q: Talk about your decision to come out a day early? “Off the break, you know they’ve been off long enough. They need to practice and we might as well do it out here and get used to the time change and get settled in here.” Q: What did you see in practice today with the team being off as long as they were? “It was pretty good I thought. The guys skated pretty hard.

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After celebrating Christmas with their families, the Flyers are reassembling in Vancouver to begin preparations for the first game of a brutal road trip that starts with a tilt against the Canucks on Tuesday night. It is not often that a club gets to spend two days in a road city preparing for a regular season game, so the Flyers need to take advantage of it when the face off with the Canucks in w

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