So, of course by now you know the Big News. As for me, I can’t believe they actually did it, given the many other times when it could / should have been done. I thought John Stevens was a very good coach for the Phantoms. I have been less impressed the last three years though on the surface, what with the Flyers rebounding from trash in ’06-’07 to making the ECF in ’08, he seemed to be doing a good job — but the up and down that has marked his entire tenure has just gotten to be intolerable. Maybe Stevens could go back and coach the Phantoms again. I’ve only seen one Phantoms game this year — last night’s at the Wachovia Center — and they are a shell of what they were two years ago, and even last year. They didn’t look too good

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