ED SNIDER hopped a cyber ride this weekend, Lauren Hart holding up her cell phone toward the singing fat lady he and his team made an eternal hockey symbol, an unintended symbol of his world view as well, even before he personally gave those Rooskies hell.
"If Ed Snider can't be in the arena," Hart told anyone who asked, "I'll bring the arena to him."
Up on the scoreboard, Kate Smith was still a robust 67 years old, belting out her piece of God Bless America. Grainy a bit but no worse for the wear, she and her voice suspended forever in 1974, forever in time, or at least for as long as the Flyers play hockey.