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If playing a man down in a hockey game is unfavorable, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers must not have gotten the memo.
Bridgeport allowed nine Adirondack power plays Saturday, but they killed eight of them and turned the tables on the Phantoms with …
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There is fast and there is faster, which is why hockey, its best players, and its fans win by the NHL’s participation in the Olympics. It also is why Canada is one victory away on Sunday from renewing its patent on the game.
Americans chosen …
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Tuukka Rask was ill, unable to answer the bell.
Finland? Sick of being eliminated by Sweden.
In Torino, 2006, the Swedes beat the Finns in the gold-medal game, 3-2 when a point shot by Nicklas Lidstrom sailed through early in the third perio…
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VOORHEES, N.J. – Scott Hartnell remembers when Claude Giroux first walked into a Flyers locker room.
“He had a real skinny frame and his English wasn’t very good,” Hartnell said. “But he had an infectious personality and when he came on to the i…
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VOORHEES, N.J. – For most of the Flyers, the Olympic break came at a bad time.
The team was rolling, having won four straight, and would have liked to maintain that level of momentum for a bit longer, only to have it thwarted by the ill-timed int…
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You may have read about the quirky coincidences between the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
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While they are steeped in a bit of strange synchronicity, they are often considered happenstance, although some th…
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RESULTS – OPENING GAMES
Wednesday
Sweden 4, Czech Republic 2
Switzerland 1, Latvia 0
Thursday
Russia 5, Slovenia 2
USA 7, Slovakia 1
Finland 8, Austria 4
Canada 3, Norway 1
FLYERS OPENING GAME HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday
* Mark Stre…
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The first time NHL players played in the Olympics, in 1998, it was supposed to be a trial run.
Of course, when some prankster U.S. players barged through a door to spray a sleeping Mike Richter with a fire extinguisher, the Americans practiced…
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This is Part 2 of a two-part story looking at the difference between trying to overcome a slump at the beginning of a hockey season as opposed to one mid-season, or later.
If you missed Part 1 yesterday, please read it first here: http://flyers…
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First in a two-part series about how much harder it is to make the playoffs after a slow start to the season then if a team had a similar slump mid-season. Part Two will be available tomorrow:
PHILADELPHIA – For three months now, the Flyers h…
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