One by one, they struggled in from the cold of the parking lot carrying a large duffel bag of equipment and with a hockey stick or two tucked under an arm. The former Flyers who will play an alumni game on Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center against a team of Pittsburgh Penguins alumni have to haul their own stuff these days and they move a bit slower than before, but they are Flyers forever and the fans never forget.
A small group of the faithful waited just inside the front door of the Skate Zone in Voorhees on Monday morning, bearing photographs and jerseys and hats and magazines and pucks and sticks and autograph books and every imaginable bit of orange ephemera from the 50 years of franchise history.