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Flyers more than optimistic a change is going to come

By George Johnson
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 4, 2007

So acute was the embarrassment, so deep the shame, so vivid the feeling of accusing eyes boring into his failures, Derian Hatcher dreaded even going into a Starbucks. "Well," laughed Philadelphia Flyers assistant coach Joe Mullen, "at 6-foot-5, Hatch is kind of hard to miss." So were the Flyers. A big flop. A massive bust. Worst in a 30-team loop. A league-low 10 home wins. A joke in futile search of a punch line. The Broad Street Bozos. Enough to make Dave "The Hammer" Schultz turtle or ...

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