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I may be showing my pro-Gags bias here, but I think this is a good move from a hockey standpoint (as opposed to just a "make the fans feel good" standpoint). Gags isn't the player he used to be but he was always one of the best two way wingers around. There are some young guys on the team that can learn from him. And his presence in the lineup will certainly bring some energy to the building (the Flyers' building that is), at least for a little while.

Jack, I agree 100%... Cooter can learn a lot from Gags... Maybe Rusty is a goner now?

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Welcome home Gagne, you were missed!

Man I wish I could be there, next game is a home game, and hopefully you all remember the Gagne reception when he returned as a TBL.

I'll make sure to cheer extra hard for you tomorrow night. If he doesn't play I got free box seats for Sat vs Ottawa too. Good to have friends that have extra tickets through their company :)

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Glad to see Gagne back where he belongs :) I hope he retires a Flyer. Probably a great 3rd liner at this point.

That being said... I've got to think that there's more coming. We don't need a winger, do we? I mean Read is out, but I'm thinking someone else gets shipped out, demoted, whatever, or there is something bigger brewing involving a winger.

Brel... I think Rusty might be sent out of town. Still not sure why we signed him honestly and I have seen nothing from him...

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I'll make sure to cheer extra hard for you tomorrow night. If he doesn't play I got free box seats for Sat vs Ottawa too. Good to have friends that have extra tickets through their company :)

If you go to work the next day, you didn't cheer loud enough. Seriously though, if you're not joking, thanks. Gagne is my other all time favorite Flyer. Rinaldo was my favorite active Flyer, but he'll have to wait on deck.

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Brel... I think Rusty might be sent out of town. Still not sure why we signed him honestly and I have seen nothing from him...

Allow me to introduce you to Ruslan't modified No Trade Clause. Oh, yes...

Honestly, Rusty was brought in to be a 3/4 line veteran presence and he's been, IMO, perfectly OK in that role.

Perfectly OK. Not great. Not horrible. OK.

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Depth move. As long as he replaces Knuble it works for me. Now to flip Briere to Ottawa for Bishop or Lehner and another prospect and I'm happy. Mike handles the puck like it is his first time on the ice does not come close to the Knuble of old

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Allow me to introduce you to Ruslan't modified No Trade Clause. Oh, yes...

Honestly, Rusty was brought in to be a 3/4 line veteran presence and he's been, IMO, perfectly OK in that role.

Perfectly OK. Not great. Not horrible. OK.

~ why you rad... he is just there. As you said, nothing great and nothing terrible. Someone is going to have to give up a spot for him... Knuble? McGinn?

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I think this is a good move. Last I heard is that Gagne is healthy and symptom free after his operation.

While I was trying to follow the whereabouts of the Stanley Cup in La Belle Province of Quebec, I found this article from Le Soleil (the main newspaper in Quebec City). It talks about Simon Gagne's day with the Cup in Quebec City, but focuses mainly on the surgical procedure Simon went through a couple of weeks ago to remove a lump in his neck. From the way the article describes it, it sounds like this might have caused a lot of the pain that he's been experiencing over the last few years.

This sounds very encouraging for Simon and his health, for the rest of his hockey career and more importantly for life after the NHL. (And obviously it would be great for us Kings fans, too.) Remember earlier this year when it was discovered that Crosby was treated for a neck injury, shortly before his comeback? I wonder if the same specialists were involved...

The full French article can be found here. Here is my imperfect attempt at translating the article from French to English.

Pendant que ses coéquipiers célébraient encore la Coupe Stanley remportée une semaine plus tôt, l’attaquant des Kings de Los Angeles, Simon Gagné, se trouvait sur la table d’opération le 18 juin, pour une intervention visant à enlever une masse de la taille d’une "balle de tennis" qui s’était formée dans son cou. La procédure pourrait être la réponse à tous les maux ressentis par le numéro 12 au cours des dernières saisons.

'While his teammates were still celebrating winning the Stanley Cup a week before, Kings forward Simon Gagne went under the knife on June 18th for a procedure to remove a "tennis ball" sized lump in his neck. The procedure could be the answer to all the pain experienced by #12 over the last few seasons.'

(More after the jump.)

Depuis trois ans, Simon Gagné vivait avec cette masse au cou, que ni les médecins des Flyers ni ceux du Lightning n’avaient osé toucher. Ironiquement, c’est une autre blessure subie dans la même région le 26 décembre qui a forcé les meilleurs spécialistes de Los Angeles à investiguer davantage

'For the last 3 years, Gagne lived with this lump in his neck that the doctors from the Flyers and Lightning did not want to mess with. Ironically, it is a different injury to the same area on December 26th that got the best L.A. specialists to look further into this.'

"Comme j’avais déjà été blessé, ils avaient décidé de ne pas prendre de chances, de traiter ma blessure comme une commotion cérébrale et de faire des tests. Après cinq mois, ils ont réalisé que c’était opérable, avec une chance de guérison à 100 %, et qu’il n’y aurait plus de problèmes par la suite. Ça fait déjà trois semaines et je me sens vraiment bien. Je suis content de l’avoir fait. Au bout de ça, on a une Coupe Stanley avec ça, alors c’est numéro un!" s’est enthousiasmé l’ailier gauche de 32 ans, qui profitait de sa journée avec le précieux trophée, vendredi.

“Since I had been already injured, they had decided to err on the safe side and treat my injury as a concussion and perform the normal tests. After 5 months, they realized that it could be operated on, with a possibility of a 100% recovery with no other future problems. It has been 3 weeks and I feel really good, glad I did it. At the end of the day, we also got a Stanley Cup, so it’s all #1”, said the 32-year-old LW during his day with the precious trophy on Friday.

La masse dont Gagné a été débarrassé est une accumulation de tissus qui se serait formée à la suite de coups. C’est elle qui, vraisemblablement, était la cause de ses douleurs chroniques, longtemps attribuées aux commotions. La batterie de tests passés a en outre permis de découvrir qu’elle était en fait une "capsule" qui pouvait être enlevée sans danger. Depuis l’opération, la vie du hockeyeur a littéralement changé.

'The lump that was removed from Gagne was an accumulation of soft tissue caused by on-ice hits. It was likely the cause of the chronic pain experienced by Gagne, which has long been credited to concussions. After the tests taken by Gagne, it was discovered that this lump could be removed without danger. Since the operation, the life of the hockey player has literally changed.'

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Allow me to introduce you to Ruslan't modified No Trade Clause. Oh, yes...

Honestly, Rusty was brought in to be a 3/4 line veteran presence and he's been, IMO, perfectly OK in that role.

Perfectly OK. Not great. Not horrible. OK.

Damn Homer.

So if we put him on waivers, someone will probably claim him. If he clears, we'd be on the hook for about $850,000 on the cap. He comes of the books completely if someone claims him, right? Or did they mess with that too in the new CBA?

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Greetings:

This one doesn't make sense to me unless there is reckoning of future years at much lower cap hit. He is "only" 33--what's left in the tank is anyone's guess. I can't see much of a short-term jolt for this...he has no goals in 11 games.

Per General McAuliffe at Bastogne: "Nuts."

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~ why you rad... he is just there. As you said, nothing great and nothing terrible. Someone is going to have to give up a spot for him... Knuble? McGinn?

I would certainly sit Knuble, pending what Gagne has in the tank. At least Gags was on an NHL team this season. Nothing against Knuble, but he really hasn't shown very much (IMO) while being put into positions to show something (which I don't think Rusty's necessarily gotten).

With the short schedule, having a guy to rotate in that can potentially play on virtually every line isn't a bad asset to have.

Let's see what Gags brings.

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Another factor in this, McGinn is out for at least two weeks with a fractured orbital bone:

http://www.philly.co...from-Kings.html

Well then the move for Gagne makes complete sense. Unfortunately McGinn just lost his roster spot this season. I had heard in a pre-game discussion prior to that fight which broke his face that McGinn probably wouldn't finish the season with the Flyers.

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http://flyers.nhl.co...ge.htm?id=64095

Gagne for a 4th, I like!!!

correction: Conditional 4th round pick previously acquired from Phoenix

Wow, another relic returns. This f'kin' GM for real? He ever watch what other teams in the NHL do to build a franchise? Thank god I have Center Ice so I can actually watch some enjoyable hockey with other teams.

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Well then the move for Gagne makes complete sense. Unfortunately McGinn just lost his roster spot this season. I had heard in a pre-game discussion prior to that fight which broke his face that McGinn probably wouldn't finish the season with the Flyers.

Nice kid. Probably will go someplace else and bloom. That's the Flyers developmental legacy.

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