At least one Philadelphia sports team is playing in Tampa this week…unfortunately it’s not the Eagles.
The Flyers will face the Lightning at 7:30 ET tonight after looking flat in a 3-2 loss to the Panthers on Tuesday. Antero Nittymaki is expected to start, but as ESPN.com points out in their game preview Antero is 0-4-0 with a 4.28 GAA against Tampa. He also hasn’t faced them since October of 2007.
Some other interesting news on the Flyers front: according to Rich Hofmann’s Philly.com blog don’t expect Peter Forsberg to be in the orange and black anytime soon…
Forsberg says today that he won’t be coming here to play this year, or anywhere on this continent. The key quote out of Sweden goes like this: ‘There won’t be any NHL this season, that’s totally clear. If I can play it will be in the (Swedish) Elite Series and Modo.’
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