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Mike Rathje a.k.a. "Michael Steven Rathje"

Philadelphia Flyers / NHL - 09/10
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  • Position
    D
  • Height
    6'5" / 196 cm
  • Weight
    236 lbs / 107 kg
  • Shoots
    L
  • Status
    Retired

Rathje was a skilled defensive-minded rearguard. He was a huge piece of business and used his tremendous reach effectively. With the Sharks, he often played on the same pairing as Marcus Ragnarsson.

He was not typical blue line big man. He had no mean streak and he was never going put a guy into the first row with thunderous bodychecks. He was very strong, able to handle top power forwards. But the strength of his game was his surprising skating ability, blessed with mobility and a burst of speed. Combined with excellent positioning Rathje could keep up with the top speedsters. Unfortunately, Rathje's career was cut short by chronic hip and back problems. He never officially retired and spent 2007 to 2010 on the Flyers' long-term injured reserve list.

Team Staff profile of Mike Rathje also available

Fans expected him to kill people because of his size and presence on the ice., Dan Rusanowsky 2010
I really had to sacrifice in order to get into good condition — (time with) family, friends, everything. But eventually the work did pay off, Mike Rathje 2010
He was always in position and incredibly hard to move or get around., Dan Rusanowsky 2010
You should only focus on what you can control. The skills follow once you can get control of your head., Mike Rathje 2010
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Note that the first box holds the code for an RSS feed with EP layout, while the second box is unformatted and possible to style after your own preferences using CSS.

EP layout
RSS-feed
https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats.php?player=8844
<?php
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement('https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats.php?player=8844', null, true);
foreach($rss->xpath('channel/item') as $item) {
    echo utf8_decode($item->description);
}
?>
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RSS-feed
https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats2.php?player=8844
<?php
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement('https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats2.php?player=8844', null, true);
foreach($rss->xpath('channel/item') as $item) {
    echo utf8_decode($item->description);
}
?>

To customize the layout of "no layout" option, specify the following following CSS classes on your site:

CSS class to create      HTML tag affected
p_stats <p>
a_stats <a href>
table_stats <table>
tdh_stats <th> (heading)
tr_stats_odd <tr> (odd row)
tr_stats_even <tr> (even row)
td_stats_odd <td> (odd row)
td_stats_even <td> (even row)
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