Pictures from Flyers' 2021 photo day and a reminder of Lindblom's perseverance

The Flyers on Monday morning held their annual team photo at the Wells Fargo Center. The club takes on the Penguins tonight in Philadelphia (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP).Last season, the Flyers held their photo day in March 2020, just a few days before the NHL suspended the regular season because of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite being in the middle of his cancer fight and having lost his blonde hair, Oskar Lindblom was present for the team picture, smiling and wearing his No. 23 jersey."Fantastic, every time he shows up," Matt Niskanen said on March 10, 2020. "The guy never stops smiling."A picture of Lindblom from this season's photo day served as a powerful reminder of Lindblom's perseverance. The 24-year-old Swedish native completed his radiation treatments in July 2020 and has remained cancer-free, playing in 45 games this season.“Every time I look at him, I see a beautiful young man," Flyers head coach Alain Vigneault said last month. "I wish he had the same hairdo that he had last year, but it’s coming back. I have flashbacks sometimes of when we had to tell him in Denver that he had cancer — we didn’t quite know what type it was, but we had to send him back to Philly. Some of the flashbacks that I have are him every time he’d be around the team with no hair, smiling and being positive. I think it made everybody in our group — players and coaches and management that were close to Oskar — realize how important every moment is, to make sure that you're always at your best and doing the right things when you see someone go through that, such a wonderful person."

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