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Originally posted by vsp
Frontrunner? Hardly. My NHL fandom went with Cechmanek to the Kings.
What I found highly ironic was that the Flyers have had one critical flaw in the playoffs for years -- they can't score goals in the postseason. They trade one of their younger guys away (as is their modus operandi), the other team gives him a chance on a top line, and he becomes a playoff scoring machine, helping to eliminate his old team AND scoring the Cup-winner. Now, THAT'S the Philly curse in action. 
I haven't had faith in Clarke since the days of the Lindros soap opera. When he goes, I'll be back.
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I didn't call you a frontrunner, I said it was an option.....and unless chechmanek pulls a Khabibulin and actually wins something in the playoffs, which was the 'bulin walls' knock.....then he is just another OK euro-goalie......I'll never think he's the man, ESPECIALLY at 33......Esche was and will be the answer.
Some nay-sayer here in Phila. have them comparing him to Boucher, great run then done. point is, every game was new for boucher then, he got called up that season. Esche is a vet with a lot more games under his belt. He didn't lose that series, Amonte, Zhamnov, LeClair lost that series, the line 'invisible' I called them, and until late in ther series I said the same thing about gagne.
I think they'll be back, but in what form after the labor agreement, who knows.....if Philadelphia sports is REALLY cursed then I'll have to live & die by said curse. Or go to Haiti and have a voodoo priest lift the curse.....my soul isn't that improtant anyway
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