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Emil Andrae provides early answers for Flyers on defense

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The pieces in the Flyers’ lineup look, at long last, like they’re beginning to come together. Through the end of the preseason and into these first couple of games of the regular season, they’ve gotten stable performances from both parts of their goaltending tandem, while with some shuffling of their forward lines up front, some early chemistry in those lines is beginning to emerge, as they get closer to finding the best mix. That optimal mix on defense, though, has proved a little more elusive, and with the absence of Cam York stretching out a little longer, desperation time has begun to creep up to find a group and an arrangement that can help more effectively keep them afloat.