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Open Ice

By Lindsay Berra

Thursday, October 30, 2008

In Philly, mean has always paid the bills. Way back when—and as recently as 2004—dumping a guy on his butt in the corner or crosschecking him out of the crease or pasting him to the glass in the neutral zone was how the Flyers did business. And Bob Clarke, who broke Russian sniper Valeri Kharlamov's ankle with one swing of his stick in the 1972 Summit Series, loved every minute of it. Hell, he was bedlam's architect. Since becoming Flyers GM in 1984, each player he's drafted, trade ...

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