WASHINGTON - Captain Mike Richards took verbal shots at the local media in the latest edition of the Hockey News, then went on the offensive after the Flyers' 5-3 loss to Washington yesterday.

Richards is quoted by the Hockey News as saying that "when you start losing, rumors start flying and people seem to just make things up to take a negative spin on things."

After yesterday's defeat, Richards was asked to specifically name a story that was "made up."

"The articles in the beginning of the year," he said, surrounded by a media horde in the visitors' locker room. "The drinking articles and things like that. All the articles - [it's] why I didn't talk to you for a month."


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