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Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Jan 6 @ 7:29 PM ET
How many drinks was that flurry just there?
- Moose_15


All of them. My kid passed out after the third beer
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Jan 6 @ 7:32 PM ET
Elliot Friendman 30 thoughts

26. Another coach on the Flyers: “In addition to everything else, Craig Berube is trying to change the style they’ve been used to playing.” Ron Hextall confirmed that is true. “We’re not trying to be safe, but we are trying to be responsible. Keep the third man high on offence…don’t always try long bombs out of our zone.”

27. It hasn’t been easy for Philadelphia, but one of the best moments was Scott Laughton scoring his first NHL goal while his parents were in town to see it live. “Mark Streit’s father was sitting next to my mother and told Mark she was tearing up,” Laughton said. The family went out for a nice dinner after the game. Who paid? “I tried to buy, but my father wouldn’t let me,” he laughed.

28. Meanwhile, Jakub Voracek had some great stuff on Claude Giroux and his own road roommate, Wayne Simmonds. He and Giroux faced each other in the 2008 QMJHL playoffs, Voracek in Halifax and Giroux for Gatineau. The Flyers captain had a ridiculous post-season, with 51 points in 19 games. “It was a joke,” Voracek said. “He was so good. They killed us.” Les Olympiques swept the Mooseheads in the semifinals. But it’s not over. “He brings it up all the time. I tell him it was seven years ago, but he won’t stop.”

29. As for Simmonds, the two get along great, deciding to stay together even though the new CBA allows each player his own room. (Comcast will love that, it saves the Flyers a few bucks.) “We both go to bed at the same time,” Voracek said. Then he told a hilarious story about how neither allows themselves to miss a game with an injury, because it would cede control of the remote to the other. Seniority determines who gets it, and they are both at 488. For his part, Simmonds told David Amber that Voracek is a huge prankster and the guys love him, but is a “total slob.”

30. Voracek, approaching 50 points, on his success: “When I was 16 years old in the Czech Republic, it seemed so far away. At 18, in my first (NHL) training camp, I could start to see it. Even two years ago, I thought, ‘I’ve got 20 per cent more to give.’ You can never be satisfied.”
Giroux_Is_God
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: CLASS DISMISSED
Joined: 12.15.2011

Jan 6 @ 7:34 PM ET
I put the sock around my skate too boys
hereticpride
New Jersey Devils
Location: HEY. Does this pole still work?, NJ
Joined: 01.14.2011

Jan 6 @ 7:34 PM ET
Non stop sock talk. Exciting game.
Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Jan 6 @ 7:36 PM ET
I put the sock around my skate too boys
- Giroux_Is_God


I used to, when I played.
Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Jan 6 @ 7:36 PM ET
Elliot Friendman 30 thoughts

26. Another coach on the Flyers: “In addition to everything else, Craig Berube is trying to change the style they’ve been used to playing.” Ron Hextall confirmed that is true. “We’re not trying to be safe, but we are trying to be responsible. Keep the third man high on offence…don’t always try long bombs out of our zone.”

27. It hasn’t been easy for Philadelphia, but one of the best moments was Scott Laughton scoring his first NHL goal while his parents were in town to see it live. “Mark Streit’s father was sitting next to my mother and told Mark she was tearing up,” Laughton said. The family went out for a nice dinner after the game. Who paid? “I tried to buy, but my father wouldn’t let me,” he laughed.

28. Meanwhile, Jakub Voracek had some great stuff on Claude Giroux and his own road roommate, Wayne Simmonds. He and Giroux faced each other in the 2008 QMJHL playoffs, Voracek in Halifax and Giroux for Gatineau. The Flyers captain had a ridiculous post-season, with 51 points in 19 games. “It was a joke,” Voracek said. “He was so good. They killed us.” Les Olympiques swept the Mooseheads in the semifinals. But it’s not over. “He brings it up all the time. I tell him it was seven years ago, but he won’t stop.”

29. As for Simmonds, the two get along great, deciding to stay together even though the new CBA allows each player his own room. (Comcast will love that, it saves the Flyers a few bucks.) “We both go to bed at the same time,” Voracek said. Then he told a hilarious story about how neither allows themselves to miss a game with an injury, because it would cede control of the remote to the other. Seniority determines who gets it, and they are both at 488. For his part, Simmonds told David Amber that Voracek is a huge prankster and the guys love him, but is a “total slob.”

30. Voracek, approaching 50 points, on his success: “When I was 16 years old in the Czech Republic, it seemed so far away. At 18, in my first (NHL) training camp, I could start to see it. Even two years ago, I thought, ‘I’ve got 20 per cent more to give.’ You can never be satisfied.”

- PhillySportsGuy


Yeah, Leight, sparky
Moose_15
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Rat Patrol, PA
Joined: 02.15.2013

Jan 6 @ 7:36 PM ET
Non stop sock talk. Exciting game.
- hereticpride



Just go back to Cooperalls.

Problem solved.
Giroux_Is_God
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: CLASS DISMISSED
Joined: 12.15.2011

Jan 6 @ 7:37 PM ET
I used to, when I played.
- Jsaquella

You're officially off the ignore list. Congrats.
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Jan 6 @ 7:38 PM ET
Yeah, Leight, sparky

- Jsaquella


At least I took the parts about the Flyers out and listed them for all to see. Selfish wiener
Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Jan 6 @ 7:38 PM ET
You're officially off the ignore list. Congrats.
- Giroux_Is_God

Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Jan 6 @ 7:38 PM ET
At least I took the parts about the Flyers out and listed them for all to see. Selfish wiener
- PhillySportsGuy



I'm going to go up and sit with Tangent_man
hereticpride
New Jersey Devils
Location: HEY. Does this pole still work?, NJ
Joined: 01.14.2011

Jan 6 @ 7:40 PM ET
Jake blatantly gooning it up trying to get the retaliation.
Hextall271
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ersson-Ville, NB, NB
Joined: 01.18.2007

Jan 6 @ 7:40 PM ET
How the hell does jake get the only call there?
Moose_15
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Rat Patrol, PA
Joined: 02.15.2013

Jan 6 @ 7:41 PM ET
Jake blatantly gooning it up trying to get the retaliation.
- hereticpride


Safe to say he's frustrated.

But good lord, that was a headlock.
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Jan 6 @ 7:42 PM ET


I'm going to go up and sit with Tangent_man

- Jsaquella


He's in the upper deck by now
Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Jan 6 @ 7:42 PM ET
He's in the upper deck by now
- PhillySportsGuy


He's waiting in the car in the garage
hereticpride
New Jersey Devils
Location: HEY. Does this pole still work?, NJ
Joined: 01.14.2011

Jan 6 @ 7:43 PM ET
What ever happened to driving to the net?
BiggE
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: SELL THE DAMN TEAM!
Joined: 04.17.2012

Jan 6 @ 7:47 PM ET
Can't get the game here, how do they look?
Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Jan 6 @ 7:48 PM ET
Can't get the game here, how do they look?
- BiggE


Meh...boring period overall
3flyerkids
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 02.27.2013

Jan 6 @ 7:49 PM ET
Can't get the game here, how do they look?
- BiggE



Better not to look.
Boring!!!!!
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Jan 6 @ 7:49 PM ET
Can't get the game here, how do they look?
- BiggE


Like watching flies (frank)
BiggE
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: SELL THE DAMN TEAM!
Joined: 04.17.2012

Jan 6 @ 7:51 PM ET
Meh...boring period overall
- Jsaquella


Oh well, no change then

back to the bar
3flyerkids
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 02.27.2013

Jan 6 @ 7:53 PM ET
Oh well, no change then

back to the bar

- BiggE


Yep.. Good call. I am going to my kids game. More action that is for sure
BiggE
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: SELL THE DAMN TEAM!
Joined: 04.17.2012

Jan 6 @ 7:53 PM ET
Yeah, it's one thing to suck, but to suck and be mind numbingly boring is simply inexusable.
hereticpride
New Jersey Devils
Location: HEY. Does this pole still work?, NJ
Joined: 01.14.2011

Jan 6 @ 7:56 PM ET
Agent Carter is calling and can't be as boring as this team has been. I hope I come back to a 6-2 game.
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