alright everyone some of you might know me as =31= and know already about my site and petition but if you havn't I would like for you to check it out. its a must for all flyer fans.

thanks for your time.

PELLE

good stuff man. i proudly signed. and in response to those who don't want 31 retired, it doesn't matter he didn't die a hero. what matters is that he had such huge potential and an intensely bright future and it was cut short. RIP Pelle. Retire 31.

besides no one is allowed 31 and no one wants to wear it. another goalie who wears 31 will be jinxed some way lol.

double post ergh sorry guys.

I havn't learned who the king of admins is, at this forum but I was wondering if this could get pinned?

ah triple post? wtf. this newbie ain't starting out good.

he may have made a mistake, but don't ever make the mistake that he didn't die a hero.

he is still mine to this day. I learned the lesson. I even learned life saving CPR and first aid.. in Pelle's memory.
and I have a co-worker that is very grateful I did.


the 1985 allstar game was in Calgary. the day before they had an open practice, public welcome, my parents could never afford tickets, so this is where my brother and I could go see our favorite players. it was also just before my 11th birthday

and there he was, my favorite player, Pelle.. amazing to see him, even just in practice.

after, some players came back out to sign autos. Pelle was one of them. none of my brother's fave players came out.
(he is almost 5 years older than me) and he started punching, kicking and pushing me around and would not let me go down to meet Pelle, he was so super jealous.

I'm of course, crying. until a very soft, Swedish accented voice behind me tells my brother to stop that, leave your little sister alone.. Pelle had walked up into the stands to stand up for me.
I think I squeeked, trying to say thanks.. but I was so shocked that anyone, let alone Pelle himself cared, that I never did get his autograph.

yes, I came from an extremely abusive home. but to have a favorite hockey player be the first person outside your family to show any kind of caring, well.. that was the moment I learned to stand tall and not take my brother's abuse anymore. and also learned to do the same for other people. help. it really doesn't take much.

tack så mycket, Pelle.. in case you couldn't understand my squeek.

you'll get the hang of it

Actually I wear 31 because of Pelle. He is my all time favorite player and one day I hope to be as good as him

I love this place, I'm accepted for my double posts lol.

@ the other 31.

well you know what I mean refering to flyers team lol wink

Litts wore 31 and he was a phenomenal goalie.

grant fuhr was 31, but I like I said I mean not wearing it for flyers .

My very first Flyers game was in April of '85. I was 7. My dad and I sat in the very top row at one end of the Spectrum and watched Pelle shut out the Islanders 3-0. It is one of my favorite memories. I can still hear the crowd chanting "Pelle! Pelle!" I cried when he died.

Oh I thought you meant for the overall organization, including the Phantoms.

haha no, I remember NEIL Little was 31 (the man in net for the calder cup year) and when he came to the flyers he was 35.

Is that the guy who ONLY played one NHL game and got bombed in net never to see NHL action again

yeah but thats because when we brought neil up he was too old by then, we really never did give him a chance when he was good for the phantoms. Won a calder cup figure give him a a shot the following year at FLYERS.

We have reached 100 signatures LETS KEEP IT UP

There's a few more than 100 now...lol

haha yes there is, I'm gonna be making a an update soon

yeah hextall could be considered for retirement too.

its funny canadiens have a butt load of numbers retired.

I'm with you , Hextall 1st.

Canadian's have been around a lot longer.

I signed

cool thanks everyone for the signatures, keep it up

Ron Hextall....one of my favorite Flyer goalies...he will forever be remembered in my book as the feisty goalie who used to hack peoples legs if they got too close and attack Chris Chelios in the final game of a series against the Habs. He was fun to watch. Maybe we should start a petition to get his number retired too!

their was one on that ronhextall.com but that site is down to spam. Maybe we can't offically retire all of theses but just admit some numbers should be not touched by some others

I'm making the site updates this weekend and updates on myspace

What's your myspace web address?

www.myspace.com/pelle3185

hey all the sites have pelle's death on nov 10th and on his headstone he has the 11th.

Well like they say its the spirit that counts.

alright by monday night, their will be updates on the sites

As you can imagine by my ID that I'm for retiring #31 - he was a favorite of mine growing up and I can't possibly imagine someone else wearing it. I wrote a similar post before saying that the Flyers probably will not retire the number if they have not done so by now. Keeping it out of circulation has been their silent way of honoring Pelle's memory. Which is nice since it probably did not merit retirement based on some internal team standards for retirement.

He's not in the team's Hall of Fame either. Maybe it's harsh, but maybe the feeling was that he wasn't in the league long enough for these kinds of honors?

As for #27, that's going the route of some of the other great numbers of the past - #19 Rick MacLeish, #2 Mark Howe, #26 Brian Propp, #12 Tim Kerr.

I was told at the home opener their was someone at the game chanting retire 31 or something of that nature? is this you?

That person was in my section. He took off his pelle lindbergh jersey to show off his retire pelle shirt.

well who ever this person come forward lol.

You can get my Pelle wallpaper in my signature.

RIP Pelle