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So in the end, so far, the Flyers of today now have Daniel Carcillo, Scott Hartnell, Kimmo Timonen, Dan Hamhuis, and Kevin Marshall under contract as a result of trading Peter Forsberg to the Nashville Preditors for 2 months worth of hockey. The Predators are better to us than the Phantoms are. I’m really excited about this trade – obviously assuming that the Flyers can lock Hamhuis down for Mike Rathje-like money before he would hit the open market next week. We were big supporters of the Flyers trying to get this kid before the trade deadline, and he seems like a perfect fit for our blueline. He’s already played with the rest of our Nashville core for 3 years down in Tennessee and played two years of juniors with Blair Betts a lifetime ago in Prince George of the WHL. I think the one word most people who have seen him play over the past couple years would use to describe him is ‘steady.’ Which is exactly what the Flyers need to keep adding to their roster if they hope to rise to the top of the Eastern Conference as a consistently difficult team to play against for an entire season, instead of a perennial post-season Cinderella. Plus he did this:

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