I don't usually like when people cut and paste someone else's work into their post but there are some cases where it's necessary, and this is one of them. From Frank Seravalli's article in the Daily News:

"Four friends from middle and high school trekked to Raleigh to watch van Riemsdyk make his NHL debut, in which he recorded his first assist, on the Flyers' second goal, scored by Richards."

The reason I bring this up is, well, because I'm not sure that JVR should be palling around with high school kids, and especially not middle school kids. Where did he meet these kids? Is he hanging out at local schools when he's not on the ice? I just hope John Stevens or Homer speaks to him sooner rather than later. The last thing we need is to have the Michael Jackson of the NHL on our team.

Tight Pucks

- When Mike Richards scored and Simon Gagne assisted on it my fantasy hockey team earned two points. Which helped me scoot above some other Flyers bloggers that you may have been perusing this morning.

- Chris Pronger is literally everywhere out there. Is it gay to say that he makes me feel safe when he's on the ice? Gay or not it's true.

- I love coffee. If I had choose between coffee and hockey I'd choose coffee. But then I'd throw it in the face of whoever was making me choose and get both after I nut stomped him.

- Carcillo better watch it or Arron Asham is going to be playing on our awesome 4th line. What a disappointing fight that was last night, and I don't agree with Tim Gleason getting the instigator on that. I don't like what the NHL is trying to do. There is not a fight without an instigator. If they want to eliminate fighting they should just go with game misconducts.

- I wonder what Asham and Cote ate during the game. I bet some pretty healthy stuff. I also bet they didn't eat too much because it would be embarrassing not be hungry at the post-game meal.

- The Flyers are currently in 2nd place in the Eastern Conference and the Rangers are in 13th. Guess that Brashear pick up didn't really work out the way they had hoped.

- Interesting choice by Jon Stevens to go with the two lower case alternate captains to start the year. Wonder if it's a luck thing or if Kimmo and Gags will wear the honors on the home jerseys just to cut costs. Annnnnd I just read that they are indeed going with the cost cutting technique, only they are going to switch it up half way through the year. "Kimmo, shut up. Does this look like our locker room?"