07-08 Philadelphia Flyers Season Thread

[ice grillin you]

if the flyers end up playing the caps it will be one of the most emotional nerve racking times of my life...you cant imagine how disgusting the caps bandwagon is around here....like the most pathetic display of sports fandom ive ever seen and if those fans were to see the caps beat the flyers i dont know what i would do...its so bad that even tho id get to see all the games in a caps flyers series i would rather see trhem play the pnguins for fear of the caps winning...also above and beyond that the flyers have a better chance of beating the penguins

[MDS]

i hope the flyers win but i want them to go through dc. toy with havas' emotions, please.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

you cant imagine how disgusting the caps bandwagon is around here....like the most pathetic display of sports fandom ive ever seen

Try hanging out down in Canes territory when they get off a playoff run.  There is no more infuriating experience than all the "Caniacs" (yes, they actually use that word) coming out of the woodwork.

[PhillyGirl]

you cant imagine how disgusting the caps bandwagon is around here....like the most pathetic display of sports fandom ive ever seen

Try hanging out down in Canes territory when they get off a playoff run.  There is no more infuriating experience than all the "Caniacs" (yes, they actually use that word) coming out of the woodwork.

and about 10 people show up for the games during the season. horrible.

[Rome]

Being an Eagles fan in Central Florida after the Buccaneers finally beat them and subsequently won the Super Bowl was delightful as well.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

you cant imagine how disgusting the caps bandwagon is around here....like the most pathetic display of sports fandom ive ever seen

Try hanging out down in Canes territory when they get off a playoff run.  There is no more infuriating experience than all the "Caniacs" (yes, they actually use that word) coming out of the woodwork.

and about 10 people show up for the games during the season. horrible.

Next year, yes.  This year, they sold a lot of tickets coming off the Cup.  I'd say at least 30% of this year's season ticket holders will give up their seats for next year to focus more on NASCAR.

[Seabiscuit36]

Therien the coach of the Pens had an article out in the pittsburgh papers basically saying that he wants the refs to protect his players today from the flyers.  What a flag.  Seriously, Ruutu takes a run at Briere, fargs his knee up.  Gonchar gives a butt end to hartnell's nose, Laraque slides into Biron and then claims he was doing a tribute to Jackie Robinson, Laraque in the same game hits Downie from behind in the same exact fashion of the Jones/Bergeron hit, but Downie gets up and fights the next period so its ignored.  farg the pens, bunch of stick working flags who rely on one guy to drop them. 

[ice grillin you]

he wrote the actual piece...like an op ed in the pittsburgh papers?

link?

[ice grillin you]

for the record i cant find anything in the pittsburgh papers....probably some flyer blog propaganda


i did find this tho....pretty cool

Penguins Notebook: Laraque respects Flyers' Cote
Friday, April 04, 2008
By Dave Molinari, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Penguins enforcer Georges Laraque hit his Philadelphia counterpart, Riley Cote, with a left so hard that it sent Cote's helmet skidding 60 feet or so across the ice when the two fought early in the Penguins' 4-2 victory Wednesday at Mellon Arena.

Happily for all concerned, Cote wasn't still attached.

But something that Laraque, regarded by many as the NHL's top heavyweight, said afterward might be what really gets Cote's head spinning.

He called Cote, who is listed as being 6 foot 1, 210 pounds, "pound-for-pound ... the toughest guy in the NHL."

Although Laraque's official bio says he is 6 foot 3, 243, he is believed to be considerably heavier, which probably explains why he feels it's "unbelievable" that Cote would take him on without hesitation and do it so aggressively.

"He doesn't back down," Laraque said. "He fights open. He's a lefty, and ... he doesn't hold on. He just goes. It's unreal. I respect him a lot."

[QB Eagles]

Pens' Therrien hopes for responsible officiating in finale

By Mike Prisuta
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Given the combative nature of his team's rivalry with the Philadelphia Flyers this season, Penguins coach Michel Therrien urged referees working Sunday's regular-season finale not to swallow their whistles.

"We want to make sure that the referees and the league will call the right penalties," Therrien said Friday. "You saw a game (Thursday), Toronto-Ottawa, (Senators captain Daniel) Alfredsson got hit to the head. You don't want to see those types of things happen just before the playoffs. You have a team that's out of the playoffs (Toronto) and has nothing to lose."

Alfreddson and Senators center Mike Fisher were injured in Thursday night's 8-2 win over the Maple Leafs. Alfreddson sustained what the Senators are calling upper body and knee injuries after being hit by the Maple Leafs' Mark Bell.

Both players are out for "a while," coach Bryan Murray said on the Senators' Web site. "We're talking weeks."

"You want to make sure you play hard," Therrien said. "You want to make sure if there's a call to be made, you have to make the right call. They have a responsibility, not only to protect the good players, (Sidney) Crosby, (Evgeni) Malkin, (Marian) Hossa, all those type of players, but the rest of the players; they're important.

"You don't want things getting out of hand. Most of the time players respect each other on the ice, and they'll play hard and they'll play fair."

The game may mean something to the Penguins, who are trying to finish first overall in the Eastern Conference, and to the Flyers, who are competing to make the playoffs.

"We're not going to put everything in the same basket to win the conference," Therrien said.

Apparently the Trib thinks the Flyers haven't clinched the playoffs yet.

[phattymatty]

if the flyers end up playing the caps it will be one of the most emotional nerve racking times of my life...you cant imagine how disgusting the caps bandwagon is around here....like the most pathetic display of sports fandom ive ever seen and if those fans were to see the caps beat the flyers i dont know what i would do...its so bad that even tho id get to see all the games in a caps flyers series i would rather see trhem play the pnguins for fear of the caps winning...also above and beyond that the flyers have a better chance of beating the penguins

for real.  i was boozing in chinatown last night and the rednecks were all over the place.  i think last night might have been their first sellout of the year.

[SD_Eagle5]

farg that icehole Therien, he's actually bitching about the refs not making the right call after Hartnell got an extra nostril compliments of Gonchar and that 5-3 which ultimately was the difference in the game and was just an abysmal call. I hope Downie is in cheap shot mode today.

[Seabiscuit36]

Crosby isnt warming up, must have the Philly Flu

[SunMo]

little funhole

[Seabiscuit36]

3 days to rest, and he's scurred.