{"id":75,"date":"2008-04-29T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=75"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:27:15","slug":"bill-lyon-on-the-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2008\/04\/29\/bill-lyon-on-the-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Lyon on the Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> plays host to a great column by the retired Bill Lyon<\/a> on the current second round NHL playoff series between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n

It’s not excessively objective, but neither is it a “homer” screed; it’s just a very good piece of hockey journalism that manages to recap last night’s game<\/a> with style:<\/p>\n

Goalies are not fair game, no matter how far they roam. But Downie cannot resist. He aims for the goalie’s legs and, using his stick like an oversized spatula, he flips Price. The Canadiens take outraged exception, and the Flyers must retaliate, of course, so soon the ice is littered with gloves and sticks, and unkind things are being said about ancestry. The population of the penalty box goes up by four.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nPerhaps I’d like the column<\/a> less if I were a fan of Les Habitants<\/em>, but I hope not. It’s simply good sports writing, so rare these days and rarer still since Lyon’s retirement a few years back.<\/p>\n

(Image courtesy of MattP33<\/a> via a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer plays host to a great column by the retired Bill Lyon on the current second round NHL playoff series between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Montreal Canadiens. It’s not excessively objective, but neither is it a “homer” screed; it’s just a very good piece of hockey journalism that manages to recap last … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[40,70,71,42,43,19,59],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-ice-hockey","tag-journalism","tag-lyon","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}