From: seth@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (peter.r.clark..jr)
Subject: FLYERS notes 10/5
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:12:55 GMT



The FLYERS closed out the pre season with a victory Saturday over
the Washington Capitols. Lindros and Fedyck each collected a goal
and an assist, and Mark Recchi got two goals to lead the FLYERS to
a convincing 5-2 win. This was an important victory in that for the
first time this year the FLYERS got out to a lead and then proceeded
to keep it. Up until now they blew every early lead they got.

About a week ago, Dave Brown was in a fight and the other person was
holding onto his jersey, so Dave kinda flung it off real quick. So the
first time Dave was challenged on Saturday he threw off his jersey before
the first punch was thrown, and proceeded to get the better of his opponent.
So in the next period, when Dave was challenged again (Sorry I don't remember
who the caps were, Babcock maybe?) he went for his jersey, but the Capitol
player did the same! Only problem was that when they took off their jerseys
it gave the refs enough time to step in and break it up before a punch got
thrown. Two minutes each for unsportsmanlike. Then in the 3rd, they were at
it again, this time with the jerseys on.

Injury report:

Pelle Eklund - out 4-6 weeks with a broken ankle
Andrei Lomakin - still day-to-day with bruised ribs
Claude Boivin, Ric Nattress also still day-to-day.
Also, Tommy Soderstrom's surgical procedure didn't go as well as had first
been reported. They had to redo the procedure, but the last report I heard
was that he wasn't expected to miss any additional time.

Lines:
Supposed to be:

Kasper-Brind'Amour-Dineen (yes, Steve Kasper finally back)
Fedyck-Lindros-Recchi (It was as if this line was together for years saturday!)
Paslawski-Butsayev-Mulvenna (see below on Mulvenna)
Pederson-Acton-Brown

defensive parings were mixed a lot, Yushkvich, Carkner, Galley (back again),
Benning, Hynes and Jason Bowen put together the strongest defensive outing
of the preseason for the FLYERS. Roussel and Beauregard each played 1/2 of
the game, each giving up one goal. Although I haven't seen or listened to
every game so far, I think I can say with some confidence that Roussel put
out his finest performance so far this year. Beauregard also played very well.

One point of note as far as the lines: Brind'Amour was announced as the
starting left wing with Kasper at center. Brind'Amour took the opening
faceoff, then proceeded to forecheck a lot on that first shift. During
that first shift there was a FLYERS power play and Pederson took Kaspers
spot, but stayed at left wing. After that, Pederson took Kasper's place
for all PP shifts, and at times took some even strength shifts on that
line since Pederson being on that line sometimes meant that Kasper had
to take a shift on the 4th line to rest Pederson. But Dineen got things
straight again as quickly as he could. Brind'Amour took all faceoffs for
that line and settled into the center position after that first shift.
It was really strange...

According to UPI, the FLYERS left unprotected for the waiver draft

        Len Barrie, c; Dave Fenyves, d; Corey Foster, d; x-Willie Huber,
d; Chris Jensen, d; Dale Kushner, lw; Moe Mantha, d; Glenn Mulvenna, c.

also according to UPI, the picked up in that draft:

>	The Philadelphia Flyers also had two selections, picking up 
>hard-hitting left wing Doug Evans from Boston and Quebec defenseman 
>Shawn Cronin, who racked up 271 penalty minutes in 65 games with 
>Winnipeg last season.

I don't think any of the FLYERS were picked up (should've left Carkner
unprotected....oh well..:-) )

Guess that's all for now. I'm going to start doing complete game summaries
starting with the FLYERS/Pens game Tuesday, although since we have this
nifty new ESPN deal I guess there won't be too many people needing one...:-)

pete clark jr. - rsh FLYERS contact
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