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Flyers fans voted most disruptive

NHL players vote Flyers fans most disruptive.

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Flyers fans voted most disruptive

POSTED: Friday, February 6, 2009, 4:45 PM
Rich Hofmann, Daily News Sports Columnist
ESPN.com polled 193 NHL players on all 30 teams on a variety of questions. One of them concerned which fans in the league were the most disruptive.

You know who won.

In a landslide.

Fully 24 percent of the players surveyed said that Flyers fans were the most disruptive fans in the league. Next closest were Montreal fans, who received 13 percent of the vote. Detroit, aka Hockeytown, got only 3 percent of the vote.

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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:04 AM, 02/07/2009
    Most disruptive apparently doesn't translate into Stanley Cups. What is it, 33 years now?
    — duffers
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:23 AM, 02/07/2009
    You link is dead, Rich. Working link: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?page=0809playersurvey
    — tokar
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:37 AM, 02/07/2009
    Fans don't play, so they don't win Stanley Cups. Just what is "most disuptive?" They cheer more, make more noise? Only once did some idiot throw a smokebomb on the ice and the other fans let security know who it was. If making noise hurts the other team's concentration, so be it. Teams hated to come to the Vet and the Eagles used that to their advantage.
    — mike l
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:56 AM, 02/07/2009
    oh wait, that's a compliment. Yay.
    — potus
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:00 AM, 02/07/2009
    UncleEddie - Why would this convince the folks at 610 of anything? What does this have to do with the team's popularity? Nothing... Truth is, they don't talk about the Flyers on 610 because not enough people care... Maybe it's because hockey is a second-tier sport. They should start another station on which they only talk about teams such as the Flyers, Kixx, Wings and Soul... Then we wouldn't have listen to you whine.
    — itsRyan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:02 AM, 02/07/2009
    duffers: At least the Flyers put quility teams on the ice year after year. And management is always commited to winning. As for "Disruptive fans" thats a good thing. Visiting players only wish they had fans like Flyers fans.
    — Orange&Black
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:55 PM, 02/07/2009
    players know they gotta watch out for smoke bombs.
    — Ryan
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:07 PM, 02/07/2009
    Nice. I like it.
    — PhillyFan693
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:08 PM, 02/07/2009
    duffers - What connection is there between the fans and the team winning the cup?
    — WPhillyguy
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:08 PM, 02/07/2009
    Jimbo Magoo, please spell his name right if you are going to rip him. That is all.
    — PhillyFan20
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