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1997-98 - Flyers win President, allow only 151 Goals. Garth Snow and Ron Hextall were under 1.90 GAA. Rolled through the East and Knocked off Detroit in 5 for their third straight Cup. Nashville joins the league, picks four goalies (Burke, Potvin, Snow, Theodore) and get Lecavalier #1

98-99 - Devils are knocking at our door. McPhee makes his 1st huge move, dealing Wayne Gretzky and Mike Knuble to Florida for Jarome Iginla(21yrs) and Niklas Hagman early in October. Detroit tied us for League lead, Chris Osgood was insane with a 1.52 GAA and the NHL did not have a 50 goal scorer or a 100-point scorer for the first time in a LONG time.
Playoffs: Penguins swept NJ in the 1st round, Flyers win 4th Straight Cup(FOrsberg took home Conn Smythe)
Mike Ricci has won 6 straight Selke Trophy

99-00: Atlanta joins the NHL(Evgeni Nabokov from TB is their key pick and picked Zetterberg #1). Henrik Sedin goes to EDM and Daniel goes to NSH. Heatley goes to VAN. Atlanta also went after RFA Stephane Robidas from OTT.

Reg Season: NJ took everone to school, Martin Brodeur ensured that. Flyers lost in 1st Round to Pittsburgh so that rivalry is still very much active.

Detroit won the Cup with a 4-0 Sweep of the Penguins behind Ty Conklin and Chris Osgood

00-01: Minnesota got Luongo and Vokoun from the Exp Draft, while Columbus got Dafoe, Potvin and Turek.

Flyers returned back to the top behind Forsberg, Iginla and Ron Hextall. Dwayne Roloson jumped to a 5* Potential(strange). Devils plummeted, Detroit lost the Division to Chicago. Florida, with Hasek in goal, took the Southeast division by storm.

Playoffs: Flyers blitzed through the League with only the Penguins winning games. Gonchar took home his 3rd Conn Smythe, Forsberg won the Art Ross.

01-02: Flyers took home the President, but the gap is closing and it showed with the Rangers knocking the Flyers out in the Semi-finals in 7 games. Dallas took home their 1st Stanley Cup in Six games vs the Rangers.

02-03 - Flyers squeaked into the Playoffs, Hextall/Roloson split for reasons....Flyers made it to the Conf Finals, Penguins knocked them out in five then beat Chicago for the Cup in five. Ron Hextall retired, Flyers retired his #27, Yzerman retired, Detroit retired #19

03-04 - Flyers traded Brind'Amour to NSH for 20-yr old Mark Giordano. Forsberg fractured a neck vertabre at the start of the season. Detroit did terrible
Devils beat LA Kings for the Cup.
Detroit won the Draft Lottery, but drafted Jonathan Quick instead of OV. Ovechkin fell to #7 Columbus. Malkin went #2 to the Blues

04-05 Colorado had an abysmal year (17-51-14), Pittsburgh took home the President, but there is a shift in the League powerhouses with Anaheim, Florida, Edmonton and Buffalo creeping up. Jagr is dragging the Penguins to the top. Flyers are struggling with out a goalie

San Jose Sharks won the Stanley Cup
Hasek(FLA), Hull(STL) and Robitaille(LA) retired with # Retired

Islanders won the Lottery and picked Carey Price. Colorado picked Tuuka Rask....Detroit got Sidney Crosby