because the media makes them that way. I’m not saying they aren’t good hockey players, but I feel that there are many players on other teams that are just as deserving. Your Richards, our Toews, the Preds Weber, etc. the list goes on and on.

Are you dreaming of Gagne – Richards – Kane?

ehhhh, Kane was a super sniper like Carter. JVR is a big man, who can pass and move the puck. Yeah Kane is a better player/scorer then JVR, but I personally think that JVR is a better fit on our team.

Also, I hate hearing the Kane/JVR debate from our side. I knew that Kane was the far better player in the draft, but I was still happy with JVR (although, i’ll admit, I thought Torres was gonna be a stud too). My dad was saying that JVR needs a great series for him to get that question of “what if?” off his back. But I was saying that Chicago needs Kane to have a huge series for them to win, but we arent banking on JVR to be huge for us to win. We’d love to see JVR Play amazing, but we have 5 or 6 other guys that I expect to play better anyway.

Nooooo. Holmgren ruined this team with NTC’s and a bunch of no-chemistry no-sense-of-team half-effort-putting-out wastes of talent. We need to just blow it all up, dump them all, and start over.

/two-months-ago’d

that should say “every reason not to.”

Who are you defending your fandom to? I didn’t see anything in this article worth getting worked up over. No one said Black Hawks fans were front runners.

Why do we have to keep reading pieces about Philly fans all being assholes ad naseum? We continually have to defend our fandom from that oversimplification because of a very vocal minority of jagoffs who happen to cheer for our teams.

The point is that some people stuck with their team through everything, although some fanbases have had worse situations than others. Now with the sudden re-emergence of your team, there are smug Chicago fans coming out of the wordwork who couldn’t be found under a rock 5 years ago. I’m getting emails from people I’ve bearly spoken to within my company telling me how the Flyers are going down in 4.

There’s bad apples in every fanbase. We all have our crosses to bear.

I think someone (ahem) may have posted a Fanpost article about this very topic just a little while ago…

Didn’t you get plenty of crap over the last decade from people who were Red Wings fans who also happened to be fans of the Patriots, Yankees, and Lakers? Didn’t you find that a little annoying and find yourself praying for the Red Wings to have a bad season so those guys would all just go away?

Coming from a city where our arch-enemies include the Penguins, the Cowboys, and the Celtics, we’re particularly sensitive on this issue. Yeah, it’s unfair to make fans like you defend yourselves by demonstrating that you are one of the die-hards who lived through the bad times. But it’s natural when those fans are outnumbered by the other kind — and the other kind tend to be particularly obnoxious trash-talkers — to start to assume the negative of people.

Thank you. That is the point I am trying to make. Hawks fans are nothing like Pens fans.

It’s how I discovered the Flyers. Channel 2 on the set top box. That logo was classic.

Awful, awful camerawork on the games, though.

Yes!

I remember thinking when Comcast acquired and the rights to show the flyers that I would no longer be able to watch Flyers games because we did not get this “Comcast Sportsnet”.

What a foolish little 7-year old I was.

i remember that all the away games were on 57 or 17. the only people in the ’hood who had prism was my neighbors-needless to say, their children were slightly neglected when i babysat.

i also remember watching it and thinking it was weird that the jerseys looked different.

i wasn’t a terribly bright child.

Nice artwork! :) We’ll do our best.