Sergei Bobrovsky will become the youngest Flyers goaltender to start a season opener when the Flyers take the ice tonight at beautiful Consol Energy Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Brian Boucher said he was “a little shocked” and disappointed when coach Peter Laviolette told him the Russian rookie would be starting but said he’s faced many bigger challenges in his career and will be a good teammate. Laviolette said he liked Bobrovsky’s “body of work” in the preseason. In other roster news, Chris Pronger said the strength in his right knee is not enough to allow him to play in tonight’s opener and he is listing himself as day-to-day

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Courier-Post Exclusive Interview with Ian Laperriere, who has been told by doctors that his NHL career is over: What are the doctors telling you? They say I damaged my eye, the nerve in the back of my eye, and there’s pretty much nothing they can do.

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If today’s practice carries any weight — and it says here it does — here’s how the Flyers will look Thursday night when they face the Penguins in Pittsburgh: LW C RW Dan Carcillo Mike Richards Jeff Carter Scott Hartnell Danny Briere Ville Leino James van Riemsdyk Claude Giroux Nikolay Zherdev Jody Shelley Blair Betts Darroll Powe Left Defense Right Defense Chris Pronger Matt Carle Braydon Coburn Kimmo Timonen Sean O’Donnell Andrej Meszaros Oskars Bartulis Matt Walker Goaltenders Brian Boucher Sergei Bobrovsky

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Conference call with Flyers GM Paul Holmgren October 4, 2010 Q: What is the latest update you can give us? “Today we loaned Johan Backlund, Marc-Andre Bourdon, Erik Gustafsson, Jon Kalinski, Mike Testwuide, David Laliberte and Ben Holmstrom to the [Adirondack] Phantoms of the American Hockey League and we released, from a professional tryout, Bill Guerin.” Q: Can you explain your decision on Bill Guerin? “It had just gotten to the point where it didn’t look like it was going to work for us. I think we were all hoping he would add something, and it was a tough situation for Bill to be in, and we all thank him for coming in on a tryout like he did

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Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren has scheduled a 2 pm news conference to announce he has released veteran Bill Guerin from his tryout contract.

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FORWARD LINES Ville Leino Jeff Carter Scott Hartnell James van Riemsdyk Mike Rochards Dan Carcillo Andreas Nodl Claude Giroux Nikolai Zherdev Jody Shelley Blair Betts Darroll Powe DEFENSE PAIRINGS Kimmo Timonen Erik Gustafsson Matt Carle Braydon Coburn Sean O’Donnell Marc-Andre Bourdon STARTING GOALIE Sergei Bobrovsky

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Q: Looking back at the playoffs, was it wanting to play in a Final that led you to this, and do you regret it at all? “I don’t regret it.

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