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Since:Jan 29, 2008
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Just wanted to wish all the Flyers gang well...see you in the fall...I am off to the Phillies board until football season, hope to see some of you there.
Hey, could you imagine us making the final four at about game 8 of that 10 game losing streak? It's been a great ride this year, and I appreciate the passion everyone (flyers fans) brings to this board. When I moved to Florida in 1997 (yes the Flyers sent me off with a sweep in the finals), I said the two things I'll miss are Yuengling beer and going to philly games. Well Yuengling opened a plant up the road in Tampa in 1998. And you guys bring me a little closer to what I miss most, family aside...Philly sports!
Once again it was not meant to be and we will always wonder what could have been.
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Since:Aug 24, 2006
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I know a lot of Philly fans feel the same way you do, but I see it as same thing different day. Just making the playoffs after last year made me completely excited, and I thought wow great turnaround. But then they get the OT game 7 win IN Washington, and then knock out the #1 seed in 5 games by amazing play by Biron, and they made me believers. They come into this series and I thought we had a real shot. Biron all of a sudden shut off and allowed so many weak goals, goals that were easy saves in series 1 and 2. I thought we should have won game 2, we outplayed Pittsburgh in game 2 in my eyes, and I was expecting the same play coming home for game 3 and hopefully making it a best out of 3. But to come home and play in front of the home town team like they did, when they're supposed to be fighting for their lives on the brink of elimination and that's how they played? I'm completely disgusted in how they played last night, nobody showed up. At first it was great to see the turnaround, but I honestly would rather have lost that game 7 in Washington than see the way the came out in the Eastern Conference finals. Kudos to the Pens for outplaying us, but with your season on the line at home coming out the way they did it was a disgrace and I can't be happy no matter what place we were in last season.
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Since:Jan 29, 2008
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stoops c'mon we were undermanned, look who we lost and WHEN we lost them...that's too much for a team which was already overachieving at that position to overcome
plus you got a great b-day out of it
Biron got us here...and has not been as tight ,but this is by no means his fault...5 goals in 3 games is what we have scored
game 2 was our best chance was game two and we got a raw deal
we have been smoked in the other two
bottomline we couldn't afford to lose one much less two of our best defensemen, not to mention the point of our powerplay ---THAT's WAY TOO MUCH AT THIS POINT OF THE SEASON
you must have had much bigger expectations then me going into last night...I was like CK and couldn't recover from the news of Kimmo...barely noticed a series going on...then Coburn went down and it just became comical...it was over before it started unfortunately
it removed the foundation the ENTIRE team is built from...
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Since:Aug 24, 2006
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Well it's hard as a fan not to expect the best. You were right though, I did get a great birthday out of the playoffs. I'll also admit when I heard Kimmo was out I didn't think we would even make a series out of it (which we haven't). It was just the way we played game 2, had a couple of bad calls go our way (big surprise), but I think we outplayed them. We were down a man that game too with Coburn going out and still outplayed the Penguins. Fleury played the part of Biron vs. Washington and Montreal. We had more shots, we had the better chances, but we didn't capitalize on enough of them to win, just like Montreal and Washington did to us. I just think coming home knowing you have to win that game to stay in it you'd be able to put out enough to make it a game. Yea they did keep it close the whole way, but we got outplayed by more than the scores said after 2. I'm just completely disappointed with how they played when they're supposed to have a "fight for your life" attitude.
I will point out the Philly curse. I know the Flyers 2 years ago were tops in the NHL with man games missed, and last year they were somewhere near the top, and we matched it again this year. No Gagne all year, lost Hatcher for an extended period of time, Rathje never got to take the ice (that might've been a good thing), then we turn it around and make a great playoff run only to lose our best defender (which is our weakest position) who is arguably the best player on the team the day before the biggest series starts. Then we go into game 2 fighting and playing good only to lose our next best defender to a puck to the face. When will we ever get a break honestly? Sorry if this sounds like a big whine but I've been a devoted die-hard sports fan my entire life only to see failure year after year. I hardly remember the 97 Stanley Cup finals against the Red Wings, and the only other success I've seen was the Sixers in the Finals with the Lakers only to take game 1 in LA then lose the next 4. Oh sorry, I forgot I got to see the Phils break a 13 year playoff drought to get swept in the first round (even though that didn't bother me I was so excited to see them finally do it). And then I've heard all my life about how I'm a bandwagon fan as a Cowboys fan living in Philly, when all I've seen out of the Cowboys were there lowest years and longest drought for winning a playoff game. I barely remember SB win #5 in 95, I got the back end of the triplets careers and glory days, the days I got the most of were Troy Hambrick and Quincy Carter. I just have terrible luck with sports, but yet I love em all and watch them all year after year expecting nothing but the best. I'm sure you feel the same I do being a fan of all the same teams. Thanks for letting me vent a bit lol. We'll break this curse eventually right? At least were not the Cubs I guess.
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Since:Jan 29, 2008
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I didn't want to give you well I'm 14 years older than you speech---which means that's around 50 more sports seasons between the 4 major teams since the '83 sixers that I've experienced over you---you build a tolerance up---but I remember Cheeks dunking the ball at the last second and Tug throwing his arms up in '80 like it was yesterday. It will be sweet when it comes and it will be worth the wait...and I have a feeling when it does come there is going to be a wave of them.
And you know I got the same grief as you growing up as a cowboy fan...so those 3 super bowls (while football is my favorite sport, w/ hockey coming a close second) just weren't the same as a Philly team winning. So I feel the full 100 seasons of Philly sport drought. Hell I experienced the Bucs SB in 2002 as a season ticket holder, and the Lightning win the Cup in 2004. Neither helped. I must say this loss isn't as bad as the cowboys (cuz the expectations were there)---plus I lost freakin' 3K on that game! Maybe you are still a little hung over from that...I know I am.
Anyway, it will happen let's just hope we can keep most of the team together and build off this. I know I am glad that Richards is worth that contract...I was a bit worried when he signed on that big but that could turn out to be a bargain. I know what you are saying expecting more out of last night...I thought they would take the momentum of the second half of game 2 and add the crowd and they could have avoided the sweep. Hope I'm wrong...
Funny thing is, I got a family now and we are probably moving back up to the Philly area in a couple years...I never thought that when I left in '97, two months after the Flyers got swept by the Red Wings...that I would have missed "nothing" when I was gone.
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Reputation:94
Level:All-Star
Since:Oct 18, 2007
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I was stopping by to ask about umberger, but I want to say, as much as I hate the Flyers, you guys had a great year bouncing back from a midseason hole and to make it this far. Losing timmonen hurt.
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Reputation:93
Level:All-Star
Since:Jan 20, 2008
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Although you are a Cowboy fan, ( another fight another day), I do agree with you when it does happen here in Philly, they are going to hear the party in Ohio... No matter what team or what sport.. It will be Wild.... I don't know about worth the wait though... As we say after every season here in Philly... see you next season...
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Reputation:99
Level:Superstar
Since:Mar 21, 2007
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The Pens have outplayed us for 2 1/3 out of 3 games. They have outplayed us hard. Not only have they outplayed us, but they have out chanced us as well. They have made less mistakes, and have capitalized on crucial mistakes made by the Flyers. The only opportunity we took from the Penguins was the bad pass on the PP by Malkin that ended up on the tape of Richards, and eventually ended in a breakaway SH goal.
But...
The Flyers still have a chance....a very slim one, but we have won 4 games in a row before. We did it just last series, as a matter of fact. It is going to be tough, and I am definitely not banking on this happening, but I am damn sure still hoping they can pull it off....what would REALLY piss me off, is if we beat the Pens, and then got swept by Detroit just like 97. Argh...Philly sports. Love them, hate them...take your pick, I do both.
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