from Roy MacGregor of the Globe and Mail,

There was no need of the scoreboard announcer welcoming “the most intimidating fans in hockey” to the Wachovia Center. They know who they are — a crowd that would have made the lions wet themselves in Nero’s Rome.

The atmosphere in the lead-up to the game was, well, surly, both inside and outside the Flyers’ rink.

“Spit on the Canadians!” one man shouted as several fans in Montreal colours paraded by.

At the turnstiles, they handed out orange T-shirts with “Crush the Canadiens!” stencilled across the chest. They flashed “Vengeance Now!” across the wraparound scoreboard....

The scoreboard announcer predicted a “nasty, bloodthirsty” game to answer the “nasty” Montreal Canadien, Tom Kostopoulos, who offered up that controversial “face wash” to a Flyer to end the previous game in Montreal, which Philadelphia had won to even the series at one game apiece.

They showed a few select brawls on the scoreboard, particularly concentrating on those times in the past 41 years of Flyers history where they have pounded various Canadiens players to the ice, if not quite to a pulp.

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Maybe the folks who banned the Octopus Twirl should take a look at this…