Sad to see Sami go.
Now if we can just transfer Sami's hard working, hard playing, team first ethics to Briere. Both players are literally the same size. Besides heart, there is no reason he cant play with the same intensity as Sami always did.

The Calgary Sun has reported that former Flyer Peter Forsberg has been contacted by the Philadelphia Flyers to possibly return to the team as early as mid-November.

Currently Forsberg is recovering from his injuries last year by playing with MoDo of the Swedish Elite League.

Other teams interested in the veteran center are the Dallas Stars, Colorado Avalanche and the Ottawa Senators. The Stars made the impressive move of sending GM Doug Armstrong and special adviser Brett Hull to Sweden to meet with Forsberg in a face-to-face meeting.

Phillyburbs.com writes, "he (Forsberg) wants to return to Philly to make amends for last season.”

Flyers GM Paul Homegren would welcome him with arms wide open. “If Peter is going to come back and he's healthy, we would have interest,” Holmgren confirmed the other day. “And we would hope that he would have interest in coming here.”

The Flyers however only have $2.5 million in cap space left after all of their signings in the off season. Hopefully Forsberg will want to play due to the fact at how great the team has looked so far this year and not for the money.

I took the liberty to come up with some offensive line combinations if Forsberg would return....

Richards - Forsberg – Upshall
Richards - Forsberg – Lupul
Lupul - Forsberg – Kapanen
Kapanen - Forsberg - Hartnell

You decide!

So says former Flyer Todd Fedoruk.

"Eags did a good job last year. He saw a lot of heavyweights and I think he's very capable of fighting the heavyweights in this league."

"But I think at his age he does need a veteran heavyweight or maybe a young up-and-comer."

I don't agree with the Fridge that the Flyers need basically another enforcer.
And his quotes really contradict each other. First he says Eager is capable, then he says he needs help.
I can see a veteran heavyweight, but a young up-and-comer? Eager is only 23 and really only played one full season with the Flyers, playing 88 games over the past 2 season.

Lets look at the other players on the team. I don't know much about a few of the recent pickups Lupul, Hartnell, Smith but the Flyers have a few guys that can throw down. In the past Richards has taken it upon himself to go at it. I think its quite possible that he develops into a defensive type of player that takes care of business. And what about Hatcher? He plays real good defense as along as he doesn't have to move. I would rather have him have these extra duties then tying up more cap money trying to sign a #1 heavy weight. Isn't he big enough?

Fedoruk signed with the Dallas Stars, so he wont be back next season. I figured as much since Eager has shown he can fill that role along with having a little bit more offensive side. I hope Fedoruk does well, but he took a pounding this year being dropped hard twice. Not sure how many years the Fridge has left, he didnt look too well finishing last season.

Some of the Fridge's better fights.

I was somewhat surprised to see Pitkanen the Shitkanen traded. I figured the Flyers would give him another year to develop. He was not the only reason the Flyers sucked ass last year.

Maybe this vid is more then Fedoruk being, well Fedoruk. Maybe Pitkanen's attitude was just not good for the team.

Or maybe it was because of this.

I can see Ed Snider getting all red in the face demanding all booger eaters be traded.

Feb 12,2006 - The Philadelphia Flyers pay tribute to former captain Keith Primeau before the Detroit game.

Only one game on tonight as the Red Wings come to Philly to take on the Flyers. Game is on VS.

Before the game the Flyers will honor former captain Keith Primeau. Primeau was selected 3rd overall by the Red Wings in the 1990 entry draft. Primeau played about 4 full seasons for the Flyers. While Primeau is remembered for the one strong playoff run he had in 03-04 he is also remembered by some for running Flyers hall of famer Bill Barber out of town as coach. There are fans in Carolina and Detroit that also have some negative memories of him. I don't really want to rain on his parade, but I really don't see the reason to honor him. I guess its the captain thing. It will be interesting to see if the Flyers honor Lindros after he retires.

Anyway, the Flyers are coming off a 4-3 overtime win against the St. Louis Blues on Saturday. The Red Wings are coming off a 7-4 win against the Flames last night.

Detriot won the last meeting between the teams 6-3 on January 12,2006.

Seems that Michael Leighton will get his second start in goal.

Injuries for the Flyers the same 2 as lately Mike Rathje and Robert Esche.
Detriot has a decent list of injuries Jiri Fischer, Dominik Hasek, Tomas Kopecky, Danny Markov, Chris Osgood and Mikael Samuelsson.

So can the Flyers get a 2nd home win in a row? I don't know. The Red Wings usually has the Flyers number. While the game is in Philly I cant forget that the Flyers have not won a game in Detroit since November of 1988.

For the fist time this season the Flyers have won 2 straight games at home as they beat the Red Wings 6-1.
There has been few really enjoyable games to watch as a Flyers fan and this was one of them. Richards scored short handed, Umberger scored twice, Gagne, Fedoruk and Forsberg each added a goal. The game was tied going into the 3rd period and then the goals for the Flyers just started coming.

Leighton was solid in goal giving up 1 goal on 32 shots. Detriot went with Macdonald in net with Osgood and Hasek out with injury. I suspect the game would have been much closer if either one would have played, but I'll take the small blowout win.

Coach John Stevens

"This is kind of what we have been pushing for. We want to play hard hockey. We want to be the Philadelphia Flyers."

The Flyers have more wins so far in February then they did in January or December, lets keep it up.

Hatcher was a team leading +4, wow. Forsber is at +2 for the year, the Flyers only plus player.

Forsberg, Umberger and Richards were the 3 stars.
Forsberg played his 100th as a Flyer.

The video tribute shown at the January 11, 2006 game honoring Eric Desjardins

I was uneasy at first to post this until I saw it on Comcast Sportsnet on the 1 AM edition. Earlier tonight there was some buzz on the internet that Desjardins was to retire, and SportsNite (Late Night - 1 AM) confirmed just that.

Desjardins will retire as the #2 defensemen in Flyers history in points behind only Mark Howe.