WHEN MIKE RICHARDS was named captain of the Flyers last September, I questioned the decision. Not because I don’t like Richards and not because I don’t think he’s a leader. I just thought the Flyers were dropping too much too soon on the then-23-year-old face of the franchise, too much on someone who had just signed that huge, long contract, too much on an unmarried guy still getting used to the glare that comes with being an athletic superstar in a hockey-intense city.

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