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  • Getting Schenn and Simmonds for Richards turned out to be a great move and really sets the flyers up for a great future but regardless this play was simply amazing, still get goosebumps.

  • ah yes, the good old days when Richie gave a shit and played with heart....Carts and him ended up being so damn underwhelming, so much talent, so little drive after they got their big deals.

  • Richards is a drunk loser who showed up to practices DRUNK. Thats why the Flyers booted his ass. Ask Holmgren and Snider.

  • awesome vid though whats the name of the song?

  • Nice elbow at 0:07 there, you dirtbag.

  • So glad he's on my team now :)

  • This was an unbelieveable shift...the backcheck on Montreals rush was outstanding, such great effort the whole shift.

  • Destiny will make him a Flyer again today... I can only hope at least.

  • i miss richards go flyers

  • Still gives me chills.

  • fucking shitcago..

  • @JTruupold Thats right HAWKEYTOWN

  • Thats called out worked

  • I could undestand trading Carter but Richards too? You need these types of players in the playoffs. And Bryz isnt exactly worth his contract right now.

  • @SOLIDSNAKEXXX360, Richards was a bum and a crybaby. He showed up drunk to practices at the skatezone and thats what those "maintenance days" were about while getting swept by the Bruins. Good for Holmgren for shipping this loser out of town. If getting drunk is more important then winning hockey games on his salary, then screw the overpaid loser. Flyers got rid of the underachiever for more reasons then what they let the media know.

  • @EastCoastDude99 He's also a huge dick on the ice. He's been involved in WAY too many cheapshots.

  • @EastCoastDude99 Philly fan butthurt over losing in a trade, continues to spout lies about players, why am I not surprised from the Broad street babies?

  • @lionbaiter, yes its a "lie" because it wasn't reported by the media. LOL brainwashed dicktard.

  • I will never forget this man. Fucking loved Mike Richards. People forget that he played through an injury all through last year. Love you Mike. Will never forget that fun ride in 2010 that ended a game to soon with the wrong team on the good side..

  • Alpha Male he is.Mean and Nasty Love him and I am a Hawk fan

  • That is a "Flyers Goal" if I've ever seen one. But a G he is not, nor ever will be.

  • To the Flyers fans who miss him after watching this: do you remember how AWFUL he was LAST playoffs?! He was useless and made the team worse. Look at this team and tell me we aren't better without him

  • @ziggy8392 We aren't better without him.

  • @braininahat How so?

  • @ziggy8392 He played Flyers hockey more so than anyone on the team then and now, which is why he was made captain. Look at the guy's highlights and stats. Richie has 22 points (13 goals, 9 assists) for one of the lowest scoring teams in the NHL. Simmonds and Schenn have 16 points combined. Who plays two-way hockey on the Flyers like Richie? Nobody. We lost that trade big time. Tell me how Simmer and Schenn are even close to equal value?

  • @braininahat Schenn wasn't expected to be great this year and even so, he's been hurt the vast majority of the season so far. Simmonds has actually been solid so far. Now, what else did we get by trading Richards? More cap space, with which we acquired a guy who is playing better than him this year in...Jaromir Jagr.

  • @ziggy8392 You're right, Schenn will take time to develop and he has been hurt. Yet in the games he's played, we've mostly lost and he has zero points -- zero.  SImmonds has been fine, not great but not bad at all. I like him on the team. We didn't need to trade Richie to sign Jagr. That cap space was to sign Bryz. You know, Bryz, the goalie with numbers no better than Bob's.

  • @braininahat To be fair, we wouldn't have gotten either without trading him (though I was never a fan of going after another goalie, since Bob showed a ton of promise in his rookie season...though I wish we signed Elliott to be a backup considering the monster year he's having at only 600k)

  • @ziggy8392 And Jagr isn't playing better than him this year. Richie has 23 points for a low scoring team. He's on the 2nd line and playing with whom? Jags has been awesome. I'm loving him on the Flyers, but he's playing alongside Giroux and Hartnell -- the perfect line for him to score and pick up assists. Plus the season isn't half way through. We still have to see how he'll hold up. And, again, we didn't trade Richards to acquire Jagr.

  • @braininahat The Kings have inconsistent lines. You barely know who anyone is going to play with. Even Kopitar doesn't consistently have the same line. As for the Flyers, G and Jagr make that line more than Hartnell, who has probably benefited most from playing on it.

  • @ziggy8392 And I don't call 7 points in 11 playoffs games AWFUL, especially since it's consistent with his regular season numbers (which weren't awful either).

  • @braininahat Points didn't tell the whole story. He had no energy on the ice.

  • I dislike verses annoucers...crappy.

  • this just made miss richards even more

  • That's got to be one of the greatest Flyers shifts of all time. Richards was a beast on that playoff run. I think I scared the shit out of my wife when I jumped up and screamed after that goal.

  • Too bad they lost to the HAWKS

  • I miss Mike Richards :'(

  • megaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

  • and... SCORE!!!!!!! PATRICK KANE TAKES THE CUP FOR CHICAGO!!!!

  • Then the crowd started chanting USA because they are fucking morons who are seemingly unaware the habs had more americans and the flyers top players were pretty much all canadians.

  • @Nashtak you are a dumbass sir it is clear that the fans were not chanting USA because the players are American it is because they are an American team versus a Canadian team but Im sure you knew that you are a moron

  • @xXquake4Xx Of course i knew that, it's the mother fucking point genius. I'm pointing out the motherfucking irony here.

  • @xXquake4Xx its not fucking ironic you dumb ass I know you knew they were referring to the teams location and it is clear that the players would understand it too so why does it fucking matter you dipshit

  • What a fucking warrior.

  • That was insane.

  • Yeah eat that Habs!

  • He and Carts went out and most likely got shitfaced after this one.

  • @qbranch88 *cough* Richards is one of the Kings top scorers *cough*

  • @Zachthekingsfan

    Mike Richards - 27 pts

    Wayne Simmonds - 34 pts

    Braden Schenn - 9 pts

    Yeah we really "lost" that trade big time.

  • "The Flyer's captain is announcing his presence as the alpha male!" Richie was a great Flyer.

  • fuck the habs.

  • This is what Richards was capable of. Yet shifts like this were few and far between. That's why Richards will never be a great player. He doesn't have the drive or passion that separate the good from the great.

  • i was there i'll never forget that

  • Thanks Richie for an incredible run. That playoff run is one of my all time hockey highlights, and I was at the Rangers game where they won the so to get it and the boston series. This was an incredible team.

  • I know nothing about hockey, but even I realize this was a sweet move. Wow.

  • This always makes me smile. But i hate how things ended for him. He did a lot of this organization and they didn't treat him the way he deserves. I hope he realizes that some Philly fans will always support him. Even if he's not wearing the right colors.

  • I knew the game was over right after this play. Once you saw the look of the Canadian players on the bench, you knew it was over. I honestly love what the Flyers got for Richards in Simmonds and Schenn. I also love the Carter trade. Richards was the perfect Flyer, and I'll miss him, but I love the new look Flyers right now.

  • damn I miss this man.....philly misses ya Richie

  • nails Bergeron, grabs the puck, sets up Coburn with a great opportunity, backchecks several times harder than anyone else, steals the puck, gets himself back into position and wide open, dashes for the long pass, appears to chip it through Halak's 5-hole, then gets up and bangs it into the empty net. total fucking beastmode.

  • so legendary that it gave him a whole other year in a flyers uniform

  • meh

  • Go red wings :)

  • too bad Richards couldent do that all playoffs :(

  • @JamesC666 That was in the playoffs. lol

  • fuck now i have to find edmundgerber's comment...

  • this NEEDS to be shown on the jumbotron october 15th when the kings come in to town!

  • Look at the Habs getting pushed around like a bunch of pussies xD

  • @HckyPwn3r16 your the biggest bitch ive ever seen

  • Music made it more epic. Pacific division is gonna be tough (like it isn't already right?). Great vid!

  • Look at his fucking backcheck. Damn if he stopped drinking so much and played like that this year the Flyers would've gone a lot further.

  • @sshockey55 This is one of the reasons why Richie is starting to like it in L.A. better, he's not getting so much stupid shit from fans

  • Even though the Habs lost, this was still a great series in my eyes. October can't come sooner! D:

  • @HckyPwn3r16 You only wish anyone on your team played as hard as that. He stepped on the ice, and gave it 110% the entire shift; had a nice solid hit, set up a great opportunity, and then finished it with a shorthanded goal.

  • and the flyers traded this guy why?

  • i love that we now have schenn, but everyone saying that he deserved to get traded and that he had no heart anymore is wrong. he played the whole season with a broken wrist, that seems like heart to me. and can you blame him for partying, what would you do if you were his age and has the money that he does. richie will always be missed here in philly, maybe not by everyone, but by the true fans that appreciate what you did for us over the years

  • He WAS good, but this was his last good game. He said that Lappy was his only motivation. Sadly, Richards prime was over. This was a great trade. We got Schenn which is Richie 2.0, and simmonds who is that great Philly type of player.

  • @kidkong584 lol your stupid....how is richies prime over...hes fucking 26 years old...

  • @torontario1 He was done. He can't score for shit anymore.

  • @torontario1 He doesn't give a shit anymore. Used to work his ass off, give it his all, now he's just like Kane...

  • @kidkong584 pretty sure his undisclosed injury to his hand he dealt with all last season didnt help his scoring drive much, but since you probably buy into the media bullshit about how trading him and carter is awesome and were getting so much more back then your an idiot, richards was the heart and soul of the team, did you not see how emotional holmgren was after being forced to make the trade, simmonds aint that good, shenn has played 3 nhl games and doesnt even come close to richies skillset

  • @ewilliams9 Schenn isn't Richie 2.0, but he will be. Simmonds is a great Philly-type player. Voracek is a great replacement for Leino. JVR will have a breaout season soon. I'm not complaining.

  • @kidkong584 simmonds is hardy a physical high impact player, as for shenn based on his junior numbers and inability to remain in the nhl out of the draft first year unlike richards not to mention he doesnt play on an edge or bring any kind of emotion what so ever to the rink how in the hell will he become the next richards, and if your true to philly then you would also realize everything thats happened in the off season is bullshit.. they said they needed one piece then drop half the team

  • What song is this? makes it 100x more epic

  • will be missed.

    

  • WELCOME TO LA!! love the vid edit!

  • i think flyers shouldnt sell richards... he was the heart and soul off the philly..

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  • I wish he just stayed in Philly :(

  • Song?

  • Welcome to LA Mike Richards!

  • the great sport of ice hockey

  • I would show this to anyone wanting to know about hockey. Mike Richards is the man. He`s tourmented my Red Wings plenty lol.

  • This was when I liked Richards. We robbed LA blind by getting Schenn for Richards, especially with how he was out drinking all the time with Carter and wasn't getting along with Laviolette. By far my favorite Richards moment though

  • As excited as I am at the thought of Schenn I sure as hell will miss Richards

  • This ain't the Richards you're getting LA King fans; he rarely does this anymore.

  • This guy is truly a special player. Sorry to the flyer fans to having your heart and soul traded. Its a crappy thing is sports. Hopefully he leads the KINGS to the cup!

  • @rollinponystyle heart and soul...lol. Did you happen to watch his past season?

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  • L.A should be proud.

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  • so fucking stoked to have him this year

  • I think Richards was the best Flyer and I can't believe he was traded.

  • Cya!

    Richie will love LA, partying, not giving a shit, so happy to get rid of him.

  • To Kings fans, Richards doesn't do these shifts anymore, hence why Homer traded him.

  • @tulllguy Your a fucking idiot. He was injured all last fucking season. We just traded a future HOF for shit.

  • @xbroadstreetbullyx sure he was, sure he was. More like he was drunk all season.

  • @tulllguy Drunk all season? Yup, now you just proved you're an idiot. I'm pretty sure you don't watch the Flyers, however if there's a the slight chance that you do watch Flyers games..stop watching them. Stop commenting on the videos. Stop reading about the Flyers. For the rest of your life forget the Flyers even exist.

    It'll due the fanbase much justice.

  • until the Flyers win the cup in my lifetime, this is hands down my favorite Flyers playoff moment...

    can easily watch this over and over and get goosebumps every...single...time

  • Goddam! Richards in beast mode. I'm going to miss that dude (no homo).

  • I'll miss Richards but not Carter...

  • first dawkins then westbrook, gagne and now richards it seems every year a pihlly team gets rid of my favorite player :(

  • @TheDigs345 Lol philly teams just have a habit of getting rid of their best players for some reason. You cant forget McNabb either. The phillies are the only organization with common sense. l know this flyers trade isnt really as bad as everyone makes it out to be but still getting rid of our captain, assistant captain, and our other assistant captain 1 year earlier.. thats just fucked up.

  • people who say richards didnt play like this everynight clearly just bandwagoned the flyers after the cup run, you are all fucking idiots

  • Welcome to LA.

  • Sorry to see you go.

  • It still stings that we gave up Schenner, not gonna lie! But, it's highlights like this that make me excited to see what Mike can do for us in LA! Go Kings!!

  • absolutely heartbroken right now. Kings got a hell of a player. enjoy him.

  • Un frickin believeable! I still can't believe they traded him!! Kings got a great player!! Good luck Richie, we will miss you here in Philly!!!!

  • Welcome to the Kings Mike! :D! Can't wait to watch you this upcomming season!

  • kings going to win it all

  • This is how I will always remember #18, THE CAPTAIN.

    GOOD LUCK AND ALL THE BEST RICHIE!

  • haha, the editing on this is great. Welcome to LA Mike!

  • i'm gonna miss Richards a lot as a flyer fan, SO many great memories. Incredible run you had in 2010, I'll never forget it. Good luck out on the west coast, Mike

  • Mr. LA now

  • Legendary!

  • Welcome to the Kings Mr. Richards.

  • sad day....gonna really miss this guy.

  • cya captain. this was the only good moment in his career. you rarely ever showed heart on the ice. cya bud

  • @cowboyzsuk81 Rarely ever showed heart on the ice?

    ..You're an idiot.

  • Bye Captain Richards :(

  • Thanks for the memories.

  • Bye bye Richie!

  • Welcome to LA big guy!

  • Did anyone notice that that was during a Penalty Kill?! Epicness. Flyers are despised all over the league for their brand of hockey, big checks and finishes as well as intimidation. But damn, watching this shift makes you appreciate the way they play all season. Only the flyers will risk pushing you around during a PK and make you pay

  • IMO I think it would be Carter to go for now, but yeah they just raised the cap so maybe they;ll both stay.

  • 6 people are Habs fans. Richards was in beastmode that night. he & Giroux might be the 2 most dangerous players on a penalty kill.

  • @37jkeyte How the fuck do you not see my logic? Prongers injury were worse than Richards, Pronger has been a captain of the Blues, when he was traded to Edmonton they made it to the cup finals, when he was traded to Anaheim he helped lead them to win a cup and was captain of the ducks, helped the flyers to the finals with them, Norris trophy winner, Hart Trophy winner, helped Canada win the gold twice.

    He's a veteran and a future HOF, how is he not a good choice...??

  • @77HeIix I never said any of that dip shit. I agree with you completely, Pronger is a hall of fame Defenseman and without a doubt a good Choice for Captain. Do i think he deserves it more than Richards? No i dont. Richards works harder then everyone on the team besides maybe Giroux. You were talking about leading by example in your first post not history, Pronger did not lead by example considering he was out half the season.

  • Also glad to put down the 'mighty Habs' !!!!

  • Legendary, regardless of the outcome!

  • Music?

    

  • As a diehard Philadelphia sports fan/ Flyers fan, I can say that this shift and the goal that ensued was the most incredible thing I ever witnessed. Everyone right now is questioning Richards and his ability to be a Captain, but this is what happens when he is at his best. He is a game changer. Oh btw, anyone know the music?

  • @PhillyFanatic87 I would like to see Pronger wear our C personally, I didn't see any effort especially at the end of the year from Richards.

    When he's trying, giving it his all, he's the most balanced player in the NHL, can score, hit, anything you need. He's also a good defensive forward. His depth is incredible, and his ability to hit at his size is amazing. I hope to see more of that this year, just like in 09-10.

    I feel like it's important we do well this year coming up.

  • @77HeIix So let me get this straight, you would like to see someone who played about 53 season games and what 2 and a half playoff games, get the C because he shows more effort then a man that played 81 regular season games and ALL the playoff games while having an injury that he needed surgery for ALL year? I see your logic..... oh wait.

  • @PhillyFanatic87 yeah i agree bu the thing is not only has his point production gone down but same with his hustle and 2 way play, when he is at his best he is maybe a top 10 player in the league similar to kesler because of their 2 way play but hes not playing with as much heart and i down for trading him, the future is giroux and jvr instead of carter and richards which is what it was expected to be 2 years ago, but now the flyers are shopping carter and are hearing trade offers for richards

  • I am a hardcore Flyer fan, and I get sick of these "whose team is better" bullshit fights.  AS A HOCKEY FAN, you should acknowledge the play of Richards here. But, as a Flyer fan, I have the right to say, everyone else sucks. Boston was lucky, and our goaltending was just as effective as Christopher Reeves' legs.

  • in one shift he displayed his physicalness, playmaking, backchecking, anticipation, and desire and that's why he wears the C...he definately was hurt this years playoffs

  • I keep this game on my DVR just to watch this

  • and this was all short-handed

  • I've watched this so many times and I'm still fucking amazed. The most courageous and inspirational thing I've ever seen on the ice (except for lappy). No shit, chuck Norris weeps.

  • LOLLLLLLL AT FLYERS BEING DOWN 3-0 AND NOT COMING BACK!!!!! YOU SUCK!

  • that guy throwing his stick would have been a penalty shot if Richards didn't score.

  • might be one of the best shifts ever played in the playoffs...i challenge someone to find a better one...

  • Epic.

  • haaaaaaaaaaa.... great

  • 720p fail. If you're going to upload 720p, try using a god damn HD source.

  • <3

  • oh man i just jizzed knowing that were only a few days from this all over again.

  • he's sucked this year

  • I think I watched this 5 times already. Richards is a legend in the making. Go Flyers!

  • @kanayd have you watched the last few mos?

  • coburn fail on the hit lol but richards makes up for it with his amazing goal

  • i was there