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    Hall of Fame- yes or no?

    in Philadelphia Flyers

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    @ruxpin

    Agreed on not retiring his number, I think that's an honor that is decided based more on positive emotional attachment between player and team. We can say all we want about mending fences and bringing him back into the organization, and I do think that's a good thing, but this doesn't change the negatives that nearly ripped an organization apart.

    Flyers HOF, absolutely appropriate and I hope they do it soon. NHL HOF, maybe. But no number retirement.

    Lavi brings the Jam!

    in Philadelphia Flyers

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    And for the love of (hockey), will the refs nut up and call the holding the stick on the "chicken wing" move to DRAW a hook. Maybe throw an unsportsmanlike in there too, as it is a gutless move akin to diving.

    I agree, but Danny B would have about 30 extra minors a season too if that were enforced

    Lavi brings the Jam!

    in Philadelphia Flyers

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    Best part of that whole episode was Hartsy doing the Hulk Hogan imitation to the wannabe behind the glass...

    That was the funniest thing I've seen in a hockey game in years! I thought I just jumped in the way-back machine and landed in 1977

    Penalties from third period "melee"

    in Philadelphia Flyers

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    The Heidi network never changes. Once was watching a game with Ottowa and it went to OT and they went to regular broacasting. With luck it was picked up by VS. It might even have been a playoff game..

    I remember NBC cutting from NHL games in progress at exactly the appointed time of their next program. I'm not sure the spillover always went to Versus....

    Penalties from third period "melee"

    in Philadelphia Flyers

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    Since they didn't bother sorting this out before starting play again...or apparently until well after the game ended. NBC must have told them to hurry it up

    How the Flyers came out with an extra 4 mins is beyond me

    18:57 PHI Brayden Schenn served by Jaromir Jagr : Unsportsmanlike conduct - 2 min 18:57 PHI Wayne Simmonds : Fighting (maj) - 5 min 18:57 PIT Deryk Engelland : Fighting (maj) - 5 min 18:57 PHI Pavel Kubina : Unsportsmanlike conduct - 2 min 18:57 PIT Arron Asham : Unsportsmanlike conduct - 2 min 18:57 PHI Marc-Andre Bourdon : Unsportsmanlike conduct - 2 min 18:57 PIT Craig Adams : Unsportsmanlike conduct - 2 min 18:57 PHI Danny Briere : Unsportsmanlike conduct - 2 min 18:57 PIT Joe Vitale : Unsportsmanlike conduct - 2 min 18:57 PHI Brayden Schenn : Roughing - 2 min 18:57 PHI Zac Rinaldo : Misconduct (10 min) - 0 min 18:57 PIT Arron Asham : Misconduct (10 min) - 0 min 18:57 PHI Jakub Voracek : Coach/Mgr on ice - bench - 2 min 18:57 PIT Paul Martin : Coach/Mgr on ice - bench - 2 min

    This team better show up today vs. Pitt

    in Philadelphia Flyers

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    i miss the spectrum too... the wf center is beautiful blah blah blah, but I'm looking at a $350-400 day for my family of 3 drive to philly (2 hours) park, have a dog/soda or beer and sit somewhere other than the vertigo inducing top of the bowl. that's an impediment to me and I love the Flyers, the wf center has all but priced me out of showing up and i'm Joe Middle class . i'm sure a lot of other passionate fans that would scream themselves silly are staying home too.

    Sad but true. The Spectrum was what it was because of the people, it was filled with diehards. And frankly, I have actually come to loathe a great portion of the clientele that show up for games.....non-hockey-knowing, Facebook updating, cell phone yakking, talking about everything but game with their date/client/other, front running "hey look I'm on jumbotron", holding their camera in my f**king face, showing off for their friends tools. I miss the Spectrum and I miss the real fans who didn't need someone to tell them when to cheer, who actually cared about the game.

    Ads On New York City Train Take Jabs at Philadelphia, Flyers

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    Nobody does smarm like the Onion (and Rux).....

    8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live

    'We're Getting The Hell Out Of This Sewer,' Entire Populace Reports

    September 2, 2010 | ISSUE 46•35

    10-Million-R_jpg_635x345_crop-smart_upscale_q85.jpg Within 90 minutes, the borough of Brooklyn had completely cleared out.

    NEW YORK—At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realized it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants.

    With audible murmurs of "This is no way to live," "What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here," and "**** this place. **** this horrible place," all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.

    By 5:15 p.m. there was gridlock traffic on the outbound sides of the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, and the area's three major airports were flooded with New Yorkers, all of whom said they wanted to go anyplace where the pressure of 20 million tons of concrete wasn't constantly suffocating them.

    "I always had this perverted sense of pride because I was managing to scrape by here," said Brooklyn resident Andrew McQuade, who, after watching two subway rats gnawing on a third bloody rat carcass, finally determined that New York City was a giant sprawling cancer. "Well, **** that. I don't need to pay $2,000 a month to share a doghouse-sized apartment with some random Craigslist dipshit to prove my worth. I want to live like a goddamn human being."

    "You see this?" added McQuade, pointing at a real estate listing for a duplex in Hagerstown, MD. "Two bedrooms, two baths, a den—a ****** den—and a patio. Twelve hundred a month. That's total, not per person."

    According to residents, the mass exodus was triggered by a number of normal, everyday New York City events. For Erin Caldwell of Manhattan, an endlessly honking car horn sent her over the edge, causing her to go into a blind rage and scream "shut up!" at the vehicle as loud as she could until her voice went hoarse; for Danny Tremba of Queens it was being cursed at for walking too slow; and for Paul Ogden, also of Queens, it was his overreaction to somebody walking too slow.

    Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and ****** on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people.

    In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase "Only in New York" is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a **** on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience.

    "I was sitting on my stoop, drinking coffee, and out of nowhere this crazy-looking woman just starts screaming, 'I am inside all of you,' over and over," Bronx resident Sarah Perez, 37, said. "Then, we both had this moment where we looked at each other and realized, okay, we have to get out of here."

    "This place sucks," Manhattan resident Woody Allen, 74, told reporters. "It just ****** sucks."

    When fleeing New Yorkers were asked if they would miss the city's iconic landmarks, most responded that Central Park is just a pathetic excuse for experiencing actual nature, that the Brooklyn Bridge is great but it's just a ****** bridge, that nobody goes to the Met anyway, and that living in a dingy, grime-caked apartment while exhaust fumes from an idling truck seep through your bedroom window isn't worth slightly bigger bagels.

    "This is no place to raise a kid, that's for sure," said 32-year-old Brandon Rushing, a lifelong New Yorker. "I grew up here and I turned into a giant *******. Why would I want that for my son?"

    "Plus, we're the place most likely to get nuked by a dirty bomb in a terrorist attack," he added. "So that's great. Also, it smells like **** here, and I'm not exaggerating. You'll just be walking around and it starts smelling like human ****, and it just fills your nostrils and you breathe in **** for like 20 seconds."

    Before departing by private helicopter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke with members of the media to address the situation.

    "You know what the greatest city in the world is?" Bloomberg asked reporters. "Scottsdale, Arizona. It's clean, it's not too big, it's got a couple streets with shops and restaurants, and the people there aren't ****** insane. This place is ****** insane. And by the way, that's not a reason to like it. Anyone who says that is a delusional dirtbag."

    By Tuesday night, New York was completely abandoned. At press time, however, some 10 million Los Angeles–area residents, tired of their self-centered, laid-back culture and lack of four distinct seasons, and yearning for the hustle and bustle of East Coast life, had already begun repopulating the city.terminator.gif

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