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  1. Update: Lucic has a 1:00pm meeting with Shanahan. ........how many games? 3?
  2. Interesting....I wonder if Shanny will be taking an extra look at this? Or maybe the injury is just said to be a concussion SO Shanny takes a deeper look at this? I think the league should be taking a look. Lucic did nothing to avoid maximum contact with Miller.
  3. I highly doubt there will be an outright ban on fighting in the league. The league wants it, the players want it, and the fans want it. What they have done though is that designated players who only fight and have poor hockey skills are basically being removed from the rosters. While increasing the value on players who can and will drop the gloves on occasion. It may feel like there is less fighting because we can't predict when a fight or which individuals will be fighting on a given night. I'm not sure the numbers though have actually dropped, but maybe, so a study may be interesting.
  4. The game has all ready changed. I think you have to ask the question what teams play every night with a legit heavyweight?
  5. hf101

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    I think Bryzgalov is very aware that he becomes casual during games when his team has a lead and when he goes through periods of time with few shots on net. He himself said that that is an issue for him. Hopefully some of these late goals that he lets in early in this season will help him focus better as the season wears on.
  6. what I've seen of Florida this year is the team has been tenacious pursuing the puck and their fast. Should be a good game.
  7. This has been the longest week. The Flyers and Florida Panthers have identical 8-4-3 records for 19 points in the standings through the first 15 games of the season … Both the Flyers (3-0-2) and Panthers (2-0-3) are undefeated in regulation in their last five games as well. Versteeg leads the Panthers in scoring with 17pts. (Why couldn't he have played this way for us last spring?) However Upshall may not be playing, out of the lineup with an upperbody injury. Hope the team is focused and refreshed.
  8. Clemmenson is just coming back from knee surgery, he was the back-up to Theodore in the last game or so. I thought prior to his injury in training camp he was slated to be the starter, Markstrom and Theodore have played well. Maybe he plays his first game of the year tomorrow.
  9. Rupert is suspended indefinitely at this point for his vicious slash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cbsiHPxZfY&feature=youtu.be&hd=1 http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2011/11/12/2556838/nick-cousins-slash-flyers-prospects#storyjump Nick Cousins seems like a decent Flyers prospect with the ability to get under the skin of the opposition.
  10. I doubt Leighton will be traded. It would be so much easier to trade for a goalie all ready in the NHL, such as Nabokov or Clemmenson.
  11. Rehab, would have been a better term to use than limbo.
  12. I don't think there is any specific policy and it probably varies from team to team situation to situation. Remember when Lindros was banned from the team while injured? However players such as Pronger and Timonen have traveled. While trying to figure out how Gustafsson's injury is preventing him from being with the team I found this: euroflyers Teemu H Erik Gustafsson is out this week with a wrist injury. Will see a doctor today (Nov 9) to determine if it needs to be operated. Thus my guess is he is in limbo. If he has had or will have surgery, then he goes on IR and frees space to call up another defender.....(which is a problem, because of the need to clear waivers for Bartulis, and Walker. If not and a d-man is still needed then he will probably have go back to the Phantoms to make cap space.
  13. Meszaros did have wrist surgery in the off season. So it is possible that it is just taking him a bit longer to get back to normal.
  14. Surprisingly Gustafsson didn't make the trip to Florida. I would have thought with the team building activities planned Gustafsson wouldhave been participating. http://www.csnphilly.com/hockey-philadelphia-flyers/news/Gustafsson-playing-like-younger-Kimmo?blockID=592238&feedID=704
  15. I think some of the problem has to lie with the Flyers defense and their own line changes. The defense needs to carry or pass the puck up the ice faster during these changes, thus not allowing Tampa to set themselves up in the 1-3-1. Our defense often tends to sit back waiting for the forwards to be in proper place before moving the puck up the ice. For what ever reason this sitting back to set up tends to happen more with Pronger.
  16. hey blogger, nice blog. I think Avery is a nut case, but aside from that his play sparks more energy out of the Rangers. btw, are you in my BSH fhl? (Red Light District)
  17. hopefully Gus will stay with the Flyers. if so, it will be interesting to see if he becomes the 6th d-man
  18. I'm planning on attending the Winter Classic B) Not sure where we will be celebrating before or after, but I'll be there.
  19. Three days after Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski unveiled detailed plans for a $100-million, metal-and-glass minor league hockey arena designed to rejuvenate the downtown, a local developer filed a lawsuit that could potentially stall the project. The suit brought by Abraham Atiyeh, through his company, Whitehall Manor Inc., objects to the city's use of eminent domain, which allows government to take private property for economic development. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Lehigh County Court by attorney John Vanluvanee of Doylestown, argues such seizure of property must benefit the public good, while the arena project simply lines the pockets of private enterprise. "The mayor should have had all his ducks in a line," Atiyeh said. "I'm not looking to sabotage or block their deal, but the law is written for a reason and they are abusing eminent domain law." Pawlowski did not return a call requesting comment. City spokesman Mike Moore said the city won't comment until after it has been served with the suit. The lawsuit questions the legal basis that city officials relied upon to buy the 34 properties needed to build the arena. And it's an argument that experts have warned could force the project — already on a tight timeline to open for the 2013 season — into a lengthy court battle. "The judge has it within his or her power to approve some form of temporary injunction," Joseph Sabino Mistick, a professor of law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, said Friday. "If the taking (of property) itself has been properly challenged, most municipalities would probably wait until this is resolved." Atiyeh has been a tenant in the historic Dime Savings and Trust property at 12 N. Seventh St. since July 2004. On Sept. 7, the city condemned the property, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, saying it may be incorporated into the arena façade. A month later, owner John McClave settled with the city for $870,000 and transferred the property to the Allentown Commercial and Industrial Development Authority, the authority the city has designated to finance the arena project. Atiyeh's lawsuit argues that the city should not have condemned the building because it is not blighted — one common reason the courts have sanctioned the use of eminent domain. Under Pennsylvania's eminent domain laws, governments are usually forbidden from taking private property for commercial development unless the property meets a strict definition of blight. If it doesn't meet that definition, then the courts have to decide whether the city's ultimate plan — in this case, an arena owned by a city authority but operated by a for-profit firm — is a public use. In the lawsuit, Vanluvanee argues "the arena won't be open to the general public and that admission to the arena will require the purchase of tickets." "We don't believe, from what we can tell, that there is a public purpose behind the condemnation," he said. "Originally this was a private initiative and it still seems private parties are involved." City officials have said they expect to allow the facility to be used for local high school sporting events and graduations. Vanluvanee added that if a judge rejects the lawsuit, upholding the city's use of eminent domain, then Whitehall Manor will seek compensation for its broken lease agreement. The lawsuit also claims there are legal holes in the city's resolution to condemn property for the project. It doesn't state the arena is for a public purpose, the suit says. The resolution also doesn't specify proposed uses for the events center and "related public facilities" that are cited as part of the reasons for the condemnation. Atiyeh says he should know. He was originally behind the idea to bring a minor league hockey team to the Lehigh Valley, examining sites downtown, on Airport Road and in Lower Nazareth Township. "I was in the arena business before the mayor was," he said. He said the project never materialized, mostly because his partnership splintered with the Pittsburgh-based Brooks Group, which now owns the Phantoms, the Philadelphia Flyers' affiliate slated to play in the Allentown arena. For Reference http://www.mcall.com...91.story?page=1
  20. 3:20 p.m. flyers website INJURY UPDATE Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren updated the media today on a few questions surrounding some injured players and their current status. Andreas Nodl, who missed the Flyers’ 9-2 victory over the Blue Jackets on Saturday continues to be day-to-day with a lower-body injury, while forward Matt Read is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. The much anticipated return of captain Chris Pronger from his eye injury will be determined on a day-to-day basis as well, however forward Brayden Schenn will be sidelined for a minimum of two more weeks with a broken bone in his left foot. It was a maintenance day for Flyers defenseman Erik Gustafsson, who was not on the ice today for practice.
  21. sorry, not me. i have a hard time hating on the best players in the game.
  22. I was thinking they would carry three until clemmenson shows complete recovery, then put theodore on waivers, and let Markstrom continue to play in the NHL.
  23. who do you think is going to be the back-up? Markstrom who is doing well ? or send him to the AHL and have Theodore?
  24. give thanks to ruxpin he nominates that stuff you know cc: atomicwedgie
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