If anyone doubts that Peter Laviolette wasn’t upset with his team after Thursday’s 5-2 loss that was put to rest on Friday at Skate Zone. Lavy is bag skating them. Suicide drills

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Brayden Schenn is back. Now that Jody Shelley’s suspension has ended, the FLyers were able to recall Schenn from the Phantoms by dropping two salaries. Zac Rinaldo and Harry Zolnierczyk both were sent down to the Phantoms, clearing $1.344 million in cap space to allow for Schenn’s $1.69 cap hit.

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OTTAWA _ So what’s the bigger news concerning the Flyers today? That Sergei Bobrovsky will make his first start of the season in Ottawa?

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Remember how Peter Forsberg used to hold court in the dressing room? How about Jeremy Roenick? Danny Briere always has a crowd. Well, “had” a crowd.

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The Flyers wanted to go at least past Jody Shelley’s suspension before having to make some kind of move that might involve Ian Laperriere. It’s not often a player gets waived, picked up and then returned, but that’s what happened on Sunday when the Canadiens told Blair Betts he was unwanted. Because of injury. If you think this is embarrassing to the Habs and Flyers, consider how bad it is

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Here’s the Flyers 23-man roster they turned into the NHL: Forwards: Jakub Voracek, Danny Briere, Wayne Simmonds, JVR, Claude Giroux, Jaromir Jagr, Andreas Nodl, Matt Read, Scott Hartnell, Zac Rinaldo, Max Talbot, Jody Shelley, Sean Couturier and Ian Laperriere (IR). Defense: Kimmo Timonen, Matt Walker, Andrej Meszaros, Braydon Coburn, Andreas Lilja, Matt Carle, Chris Pronger. Goalie

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While Bill Meltzer is giving us his projections on Wayne Simmonds elsewhere on the site, I did a piece on Jakub Voracek for CSNPhilly.com. The Flyers have a long track record as being a safe-haven for guys starting over. They love handing out second chances. Some of them work out, but many of them don’t

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I can’t remember a pre-season Flyers hockey game with more idiocy and controversy and needless penalties than Monday’s 5-3 win over the Rangers. It was a dreadful game b/c of all the penalties and non-sense.

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The Flyers got their roster down to 38 today. Here’s the list of the full cuts. Seventeen players were sent to the Phantoms: The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that they have reduced their training camp roster by 17 players, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. FORWARDS Jason Akeson Tyler Brown Shane Harper Ben Holmstrom Tye McGinn Luke Pither Mike Testwuide E

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Brendan Shanahan sent a message across the NHL by suspending Jody Shelley to a whopping 10 games for his board hit from behind on Toronto’s Darryl Boyce. Shanhan admitted that, as a repeat offender, Shelley’s past factored in. Shelley told me during an interview that he heard that was a huge mark against him. He also told me he was surprised at the number of games, nonetheless

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