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Defending Holmgren
by Paul on 03/09/09 at 09:12 AM ET
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from Ed Moran of the Philadelphia Daily News,
All week, fans have been telling me I’m soft on Holmgren because I didn’t write that he had messed up.
Well, the reason I didn’t - and won’t - is I don’t think he has and I don’t think the Flyers are in trouble. In fact, I think the opposite.
“Body of work.”
Look how far the Flyers have come since hitting the bottom rung of the NHL ladder two seasons ago. Holmgren rebuilt the team through a series of carefully planned and executed moves. He may have overspent on the free agents he brought in, particularly Briere, but the majority of the fans, the organization, the media, wanted change and big-name players, and he got them.
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