"Here I have good coaches in John Paddock and Kjell Samuelsson and they have a lot of trust in me and I have a lot of responsibility on the ice, and I've just sort of been running with it and having a good time," he said.
Syvret also has been making a place for himself on the Flyers' depth chart. He was called up Monday, after Randy Jones went out with a right hip/groin injury in Sunday's game against the Rangers.
Jones will be examined today in Philadelphia. Jones missed the first 3 months of the season recovering from surgery to his right hip and said he aggravated the same general area.
"It was just kind of a strain, more or less," Jones said yesterday. "I don't think we're back to square one where we were before the surgery, that's for sure.
"But it's just sort of a restrain that happened and hopefully in the next few days it gets better. It's only been a couple of days and I think after we get back and get some more treatment and some more testing it will start to feel better."
Jones left the game in the third period against the Rangers after he felt the strain while extending his leg trying to stop a puck being sent down low into the corner.
"There was a play, maybe my second shift in the third, we were killing a penalty and I think it was [Chris] Drury tried to throw it down low and I stuck my leg behind me and that's when I felt it," Jones said.
That night general manager Paul Holmgren called on Syvret.
"Paul called me . . . and just told me what the situation was and to give me a heads up and just sort of be ready," said the 23-year-old, who added that he was surprised, mostly because he wasn't thinking about when his time would come. He was aware of the Flyers' salary-cap situation and was just paying attention to his own game.
So after almost two full seasons out of the league, Syvret is back.
"It's been almost 2 years without playing a game in the NHL. Last year I didn't play at all and this year it's been up until now," he said. "Hopefully I've earned my stripes a little bit and I'll play well and sort of take my responsibility as an NHL player and leave the AHL in the past.
"Maybe when I was younger I would have gotten discouraged, but now I'm sort of letting the business people take care of the business aspect of the game and I'm just a player going out and playing.
"You can't really play when you're thinking about getting called up, who's next to be called up, why didn't I get called up. I just go out and play and so far I've been having a good season." *
