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ED MUST GO!
Flyers owner is reason for team's decay!

There is no question over the past thirty years that the Flyers have given Philadelphia the greatest hope for a championship. Over their first twenty years of existence, The Flyers made it to the NHL Finals six teams and always among the class of the league. Sadly to say, over the last twenty years, they have been to the finals once and are currently the laughing stock of professional hockey.

Robert Earle Clarke, The icon of this franchise has taken the blame for this demise. Poor draft, stupid free agent signings and a revolving door of coaching changes. Certainly, his tenure as General Manager will always be considered a failure, due to a lack of winning a Stanley Cup, but the events of the last 2 months makes me believe he was just a pawn in the fantasy hockey world of Ed Snider.

After a very sluggish start by the Flyers, MR Snider went out and optioned three players to the AHL Phantoms without discussing these moves with Clarke. He made no attempt to cover this move up. One could then assume Snider was always in control of player moves. He then offered the General Manager's job to Colin Campbell before relieving Clarke of his duties. Making Clarke's resignation a sugar coating for his firing. After making a feeble attempt at getting a new GM from outside the organization, he promoted Paul Holmgren. Not until Holmgren's second move as GM did I know Snider was making his moves also. The Flyers traded a 4th round pick to Anaheim for former Flyer Todd Fedoruk. I know Fedoruk personally. He is a fine young man that has overcome some of the same issues I had as a young adult and has become a wonderful husband and father, but this club has enough "tough guys". The Flyers have an urgent need for scoring and NHL defensemen. Getting another "Banger" was just a play by the owner to sell more tickets. That 4th round pick could have gone to better use.

This club is in total decay and no plan to improve. The years of spending more money than most teams to make the playoffs is over. The salary cap took care of that. Ed, I mean, Mr Snider, your son Jay said over 15 years ago that Bobby Clarke was not the General Manager to take the Flyers to the promised land. He was right. For that matter, your time is over also. Please do us all a favor and give the next generation a chance, they could not possibly do any worse than what is going on right now.