A proud Philadelphia tradition: trade away a fan favorite and rally around his hopes to win a title in a different city.
Kimmo Timonen retired a champion. The "Jerome Bettis exit", if you will. A proud moment for a long career and one where he overcame the odds of having blood clots. Nevermind he played 8:39 per game in 18 of 23 playoff games, Timonen lived his dream- he escaped the Philadelphia Flyers and won a championship.
Since that's the closest the Flyers will come to winning the title in the foreseeable future, they celebrated as if THEY had won the championship.