van Riemsdyk putting his best foot forward

Van Riemsdyk, 19, joins the Flyers' organization skating full-speed ahead while at the same time shadowed just a little by his past. He knows he had unfinished business at UNH, where he and the Wildcats were upset in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament and then fell in the second round to eventual champ Boston University this year.

"Going to UNH, one of the main reasons I went there was to have a big impact," van Riemsdyk said. "I have a lot of pride in being on good teams. I didn't have the results I wanted."

Title-linked theAHL.com article on Wildcat Alum, James van Riemsdyk, by Lindsay Kramer, the AHL correspondent for NHL.com, who profiles an up-and-coming player each Monday during the season, and his AHL notebook appears each Thursday on NHL.com.

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