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Snider: Flyers would have won Cup with Pronger
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08:23 AM ET 05.31 | Ed Snider, whose Flyers were knocked out in the second round of the playoffs, is actually more encouraged by the team's direction this offseason. "To me, every year we want to win the Cup, so if we don't win the Cup, it's an unsuccessful year," Snider said in a phone interview Tuesday from his mansion in Santa Barbara, Calif., just before playing in a tennis match. "Having said that, I'm really, really happy with an awful lot that happened during the course of the season and even in the playoffs." Snider praised the deals that sent Mike Richards and Jeff Carter packing, said he loved the Flyers' young nucleus, and added that he thought the team would have won the Cup had defensemen Chris Pronger and Andrej Meszaros been healthy.
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coulda, woulda. and the Bruins would have won the Cup with Horton.
Hatrunner
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Snider praised the deals that sent Mike Richards and Jeff Carter packing
Meanwhile, they're both in the finals and your team isn't.
THE BISHOP!
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True but you also can't win it every year and time will tell if Philly comes out on the better end of the two deals.
Garbage Man
Harrisburg , PA
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okay, so this is shaping to be a really bad off season. The SCF are going on...and a "woulda/coulda/shoulda" is the lead?
One of the all-time greatest d-men in NHL history is hanging them up today...and we get "oh if the sun wasn't in my eyes, I would have made that catch"? Really guys?
to quote..well everyone in Star Wars: I have a bad feeling about this ./
This summer is going to make us miss the hard hitting journalism of the waffling Sundin threads.
By the way...aside from everything else, Snider is delusional. Pronger has lost more than a large step, and he certainly wasn't the difference
Spiny Norman
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The Flyers are much more uptight team when Pronger is in the dressing room. I don't think their kids blossom the way they did if he stays healthy.
drysdale
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Spiny, I fully agree with everything you say even that the Pronger lost more then a large step. At least in my eyes when he was present they actually played decent D when he was not there well everyone saw what happened in the playoffs.
Garbage Man
Harrisburg , PA
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He seems to forget the guy in between the pipes...
dannylimes
Toronto, ON
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exactly
BrownsBucksBlueJacke…
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also an excellent point...
BrownsBucksBlueJacke…
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but with THE PRONGER in....that seemingly wouldn't have been a problem. In fact, if he played, they could have given bryz the day off, (though in a few of those games, it appears they did)
Spiny Norman
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This article is very informative. It confirms you can play tennis really drunk.
Canuck eh?
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So this means the Flyers won every other year with Pronger. Got it. So do we play next year, or just hand the cup to Philly?
Nard Dog
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If ifs and buts were beer and nuts . . . . . . .
Burgh-Fan
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Maybe ol' Ed should hang up the racket and pull out the ol' lumber and put himself in goal.
dannylimes
Toronto, ON
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nah, then Lord Irk would see him and probably try to trade for him
Spiny Norman
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Excuses abound!
PensFanDealWithIt
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...what a Cup we could have
drysdale
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Bingo. **** for brains Schnider doesnt get how desperately he needs a keeper.
NY Rangers
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Especially if you don't have an opponent. Nothing but aces.
Slapshot
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+1000
NY Rangers
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