Updated: September 29, 2003, 2:35 PM ET

LeClair struggling to regain past form

Philadelphia's plans for an all-American line have been hurt by John LeClair's ineffectiveness.

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By By Jim Wilkie
NHL Insider
With a little more than a week before the season starts, the Philadelphia Flyers are still looking for some lines that click.

Only one trio, the checking line of Keith Primeau, Donald Brashear and Sami Kapanen, is set. Flyers head coach Ken Hitchcock hasn't found the right combinations and chemistry on his top two units.

"I think right now I'm just trying to get into a situation where, first of all, we get healthy because we have some injuries," Hitchcock told the Philadelphia Daily News. "And the second part for me is to try and solidify a couple of lines here.

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