Peter Forsberg named Flyers captain
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Now the Flyers can call him "Captain Peter the Great." After only one season in Philadelphia, Peter Forsberg was named the 15th captain in team history Thursday, taking over the coveted "C" hours after Keith Primeau retired.
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Simon GagnÃ© scored his second goal of the game 48 seconds into overtime and the Philadelphia Flyers won their fifth straight game, 3-2 over the visiting Carolina Hurricanes last night.
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Peter Forsberg doesn&#039;t need surgery on his left ankle and could be ready for the start of the NHL season, more than four months earlier than the Philadelphia Flyers forward was expected to return.
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Hockey The Philadelphia Flyers signed scoring leader Mike Richards to a 12-year contract extension yesterday, locking him up through the 2019-20 season. While the team didn't disclose financial terms, the Canadian Press reported the deal was for $69 million. The 22-year-old forward has a career-high 14 goals this season and 21 assists. The Flyers' first-round draft pick in 2003, Richards ...
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Nashville was hoping to get the Peter Forsberg era off to a better start &#151; even if he wasn't playing.
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The Philadelphia Flyers and coach   Ken Hitchcock agreed to a three-year contract extension on   Monday.
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You can&#39;t blame Mike Fore for simply wanting a paid night out with the boys. For most of his working life, Fore has gotten that as an off-ice official at home games for the Flyers, who won&#39;t be starting their
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High scoring Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby won the Hart Trophy as the National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player on Thursday.
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Scottie Upshall had two goals and an assist to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to their fourth straight win, 6-1 over the slumping Ottawa Senators on Sunday night.
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Add Peter Forsberg to the swelling list of superstars who deserted Philadelphia without a championship. Instead of winning a Stanley Cup, all the Flyers got out of their high-priced free agent was 100 games, no real solution to his lingering foot woes and no commitment to the future.
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Peter Forsberg will make his debut Saturday with the Nashville Predators on home ice, rather than Friday in St. Louis.
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The Great One is a fan of Henrik Zetterberg. Zetterberg scored twice, including a go-ahead goal early in the third period that was the 100th of his career, to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday night.
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The Philadelphia Flyers are finally healthy and surging straight to the top of their division. The Ottawa Senators, meanwhile, are banged up and slumping.
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Petr Tenkrat scored twice during a wild second period and helped the Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 on Monday night. Marco Sturm, P.J. Axelsson, Brandon Bochenski, and Marc Savard also scored for the Bruins, who have won four of five.
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PRINCETON, NJ (CP) - Philadelphia Flyers head coach Ken Hitchcock is joining the coaching staff of Princeton&#39;s men&#39;s hockey team during the NHL lockout.
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The Philadelphia Flyers honored former captain Keith Primeau on Monday before hammering Detroit, the team that drafted him, 6-1.
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Not even a month ago, the Flyers talked about earning a No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, home-ice advantage in the playoffs and how great it would be for Peter Forsberg to return and add to all the fun.