The Philadelphia Flyers touched a puck on the first day of training camp, for the first time in three years.

There's no more rope , the notorious John Tortorella signature of a hellish Day 1 bag skate, but that part of camp was always going to be different.

The real change for the players on the ice Thursday morning in Voorhees was that there was no conditioning at all. New head coach Rick Tocchet jumped straight into establishing systems and concepts, the Flyers' new "staples" as he called them.

Tocchet trusted the players to be in shape and ready, he told the local media at the Flyers Training Center after Thursday's first practice. So instead of skating both the new and old faces into the ground, he moved them straight into adapting how the team should play from here on out.

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