(Jim: No Breakaways. I’ll weave that info into the game story. Thx.)
Fifty years ago from the day the Flyers played their first home game at the beloved Spectrum, they unveiled a nine-foot bronze statue Thursday afternoon of the late Ed Snider outside the Wells Fargo Center, and his daughter, Lindy, asked everyone to start to tradition and rub the Stanley Cup ring he was depicted wearing because it would bring the team good luck.
“The greatest feeling was when I touched the ring,” Hall of Fame goalie Bernie Parent said a few minutes after Snider’s speech before about 700 onlookers.