Dave Isaac

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Ed Snider walked into the media room at the Skate Zone in Voorhees in his orange Flyers windbreaker, shaking hands with writers with a beaming smile.

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The 81-year-old chairman has a lot to be happy about. He is "cautiously optimistic" about how his team looks, but more importantly he feels great. Snider learned Aug. 13 that he's cancer-free.

"I'm done," Snider said. "I have no cancer. It's all gone. Well, you never want that 'Big C,' but luckily it's all gone. I'm totally healthy. It's gone."

Comcast-Spectacor announced late in May that Snider had recently completed treatment.