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Analyzing Bernie Parent’s Incoherent Valentine’s Day Inky Column
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/15/2013
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The Philadelphia Inquirer has awarded former Flyers goalie and current self-help guru Bernie Parent 700 seemingly unedited words every two weeks to ruminate on whatever he wants. Unfortunately, he blew his Valentine's Day topic prematurely on his February 1st column "Unleash your hidden wolf on Valentine's Day," in which he advised his readers to "Stay horny, my friends." So yesterday, in his hotly-anticipated V-Day piece "Enrich and nourish the mind, body and soul will follow," Bernie had trouble figuring out exactly what he wanted to say.
Part I. "It is imperative to make clear the difference between the feeling of loneliness and
The Flyers’ Crappy New Victory Song is by LMFAO Guy
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/13/2013
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You know what doesn't mix well with hockey? White rappers. So they got rid of Mac Miller, the 21-year-old Steeltown-bred poindexter whose almost catchy "Knock, Knock" has followed Flyers home victories for more than a year. So instead, here's a song that really doesn't mix well with hockey: "Bring out the Bottles" by Redfoo (the guy from LMFAO). Unless we're talking Molson, people, this is a pretty incongruous choice. [CBS]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMmhKz6KXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnNYzn_0EZw
WATCH Rob Zombie Talk About His Forthcoming “Broad Street Bullies” Flick
By Joel Mathis 2/07/2013
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Rocker Rob Zombie is known as the director some of the most gruesome exploitation horror films this side of the Saw franchise. So it makes sense that his next project is a little film about the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1970s, when they were known as the "Broad Street Bullies" and winning championships. He talked to the NHL Network about the project during a recent visit to Philly:
Would You Like To Be As Well-Rested As a Philadelphia Flyer?
By Joel Mathis 1/24/2013
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Given their stumbling start to this truncated NHL season, some fans might argue the Philadelphia Flyers are a bit too rested these days. Guys wake up! The games have started! Still, it appears that the Flyers are attracting the attention of employers around the nation, businesses interested in ensuring their employees are well-rested and thus maximally productive during the work day.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
At the more extreme end of the intervention scale, some are calling upon Litebook Company Ltd., a Canadian maker of lights that help regulate the body's melatonin levels. The company, which supplies devices to the Philadelphia
We Talkin’ Bout Practice?! 15,000 Show Up to Watch Flyers Play Nobody
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/18/2013
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Philadelphia's sports madness is both endearing and slightly embarrassing. Last night, 15,000 fans (basically what the Sixers average) showed up to the Wells Fargo Center to watch the Flyers skate around at three-quarters speed and scrimmage against one another. No wonder everybody got so mad at Iverson for missing practice. [Flyers.com]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WnxzBpdbyG8
Flyers Schedule Finally Coming Together…One Slow Day at a Time
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/11/2013
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The NHL's new gimmick to keep things interesting: releasing a special cliffhanger schedule in which games are announced one day at a time. So now we know this much: Next Saturday, Flyers host Pittsburgh. Next Sunday: Flyers host Buffalo. Suspense aside, I can think of no better way to welcome back hockey (and I'm not even a big hockey fan) than with the gritty, rustbelt matchups that await at the Wells Fargo Center. [Crossing Broad]
Flyers Goalie Kind of Quits Russian Team (Lockout Ending?)
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 12/31/2012
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Over the weekend, Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov left his post (posts?) at CSKA Moscow, for reasons that could either be really interesting or really mundane. On Sunday, a Russian journalist tweeted that Bryzgalov had said that he was quitting CSKA "because lockout is ending." Bryzgalov, known for saying weird things, said it wasn't true in a tweet that ended with a :-) emoticon. Another reporter said the Russian team had simply tired of the goalie and was cutting him. Now, it's been reported that Bryzgalov is returning stateside simply to see a doctor about an upper-body injury, and will be back
Flyers Alumni Serve Holiday Meal for Homeless
By HughE Dillon 12/20/2012
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The Philadelphia Flyers Alumni served a holiday meal to about 325 homeless men at St. John’s Hospice in Center City at lunch on December 20th. Former Flyer Gary Dornhoefer (left), Flyers senior VP Bob Clarke (center), and GM Paul Holmgren (right) joined several other former players, including Bob “Hound” Kelly, Orest Kindrachuk, and Bill Barber, as well as broadcasters Keith Jones and Bill Clement, in serving a traditional holiday meal of turkey, potatoes and dessert. Last night Holmgren and alums Bob Kelly and Bernie Parent participated in a charity shopping night at Saks Fifth Avenue to benefit the Ed Snider
Flyers Fan who Beat Up Rangers Fan Outside Geno’s Gets the Ankle Bracelet
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 12/17/2012
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Dennis Veteri (AKA Claude Giroux) was sentenced today to 11-23 months of house arrest, plus five years probation, for beating up Neal Auricchio (AKA Ryan Callahan) outside Geno's after last year's Winter Classic between the Rangers and the Flyers. The brutal cellphone video that first captured the beating is no longer available, but several descriptions of the fight are worth reprinting:
Police in Philadelphia said the brawl started when the Flyers fans in the orange jerseys paid a man who was cleaning car windows to spray a Ranger fan with some sort of liquid.
Then, the fighting began.
...A large white man [threw]
Ed Snider Named to Most Influential List…Finally
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 12/13/2012
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For a guy who's reportedly fed up with the lockout that's losing him money and depressing his city, Flyers owner Ed Snider isn't having the worst non-season. Two weeks ago, he proposed to his much-younger girlfriend in Santa Barbara. Yesterday, he earned an accolade that had somehow escaped him until now. Along with Comcast-Spectator President Peter Luukko, Snider made Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal's "50 Most Influential List" because of "the successful transformation of the old Spectrum site into Xfinity Live!, a retail and entertainment complex." The guy founded the Flyers, built the Spectrum, owned the 76ers, and part-owned
