The numbers speak for themselves and they say volumes about Danny Briere. 98 in 98.

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The best playoff series in the East gets underway on Wednesday night in Pittsburgh between the Flyers and Penguins. The Flyers are 5-1 at CONSOL Energy Center. They won a league-high 25 road games – again.

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As I reported earlier tonight on CSNPhilly.com, Nicklas Grossmann’s new deal with the Flyers is 4 years for $14 million. His cap hit is $3.5 million.

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If I were a betting man on FLyer injuries right now, I would put $$$ on Nicklas Grossmann showing up for Game 1 of the playoffs next week. He is out right now with a sprained right knee, the result of a knee-on-knee hit from PGH’s Joe Vitale last Sunday. Grossmann was walking around the club’s training facility this morning with no apparent limp.

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Danny Briere didn’t have to meet with the media today to discuss his injury. Curiously, the Flyers allowed him to talk even though he is listed as out indefinitely.

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The Flyer could have been going home from Pittsburgh tonight as the 4th seed in the Eastern Conference. Instead, win or lose, they will remain in 5th place because of a shootout loss on Saturday to Ottawa.

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At first glance, the initial reaction was, ‘who’s the big guy in the black helmet?’ The big guy turned out to be none other than The Big E – Eric Lindros – who made a surprise appearance at the morning skate with the Flyers. He was the invited guest of Paul Holmgren. It was great to see Lindros continuing to integrate himself back into the Flyers family. None of this would have been pos

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I’ve been doing this since the 1970s … In all the years I have covered pro sports, I have NEVER heard of an athlete who had a chip fracture in the foot and competed days later. It’s usually 3-4 weeks. Anyone out there in Flyerdom remember that fraud Marcus Ragnarsson?

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Sean Couturier seemed primed the past two days in relishing his assignment to shut down Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos tonight when the Flyers meet the Tampa Bay Lightning. He’s had Evgeni Malkin, Alex Ovechkin and now Stamkos. “I try to take pride in what I do and shut them down,” Couturier said

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Pretty good stuff tonight from Jaromir Jagr, who addressed the issue of how the Flyers always give up the game’s first goal. Tonight it happened for at least the sixth time this season during a 2-1 shootout win against Washington. Jagr has been suggesting that the team allow Sergei Bobrovsky to start the game, take the first shot, then put Ilya Bryzgalov in. “Well, if you don’t count

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