Flyers get Versteeg

The Philadelphia Flyers just got a key piece of the Blackhawk team that beat them in the Stanley Cup finals last year: Kris Versteeg.

I wish we were getting him back instead. We miss Steeger. Badly.

Scotty Bowman and company, meanwhile, need to get to work bringing the Hawks back to where they were last year. Dollar Bill Wirtz has reached out from the grave to play his final bad joke on Chicago hockey fans: the salary cap he single-handedly talked the Board of Governors into adopting, which forced the disassembly of last year's Stanley Cup champions. Barring a major turnaround, it's beginning to look very much like what is left being something less than it's going to have to be if we're going to make a credible run at repeating.

And it's even less funny than all the things he put us through when he was alive.