"Are you saying you want a piece of me?"

Tim Panaccio reports in this morning's Inquirer that Todd Fedoruk took a shot at teammate Joni Pitkanen in practice yesterday. Panaccio noted that things "have become tense on a club that went into the all-star break with an eight-game losing streak."

I saw footage of the incident on Comcast last night. A large group of players were milling around by the boards, while Fedoruk and Pitkanen were jawing back and forth. After a few seconds Fedoruk threw a right to Pitkanen's face, which prompted several teammates to step in the way. The biggest surprise? Pitkanen didn't even attempt to get back at Fedoruk. He took the punch and stood there, waiting to get hit again.

Interviewed after practice, Fedoruk said, "[S]omewhere along the way, this team has lost its identity of Flyers hockey and what it means to be a Flyer . . . We need to create an identity."

I, for one, would like that identity not to include standing around waiting to get punched in the face.