I love how Danny Briere started with a lifeless, soulless Flyers team that lost its Claude Giroux and desperately needed to undergo major changes, and in the course of about 12 months he:
- Said the r-word (rebuild)
- Drafted a generational talent
- Added an emotional support defenseman from Anaheim
- Bestowed captaincy and alternate captaincy upon some of the longest-tenured players
- Added another emotional support defenseman, this time from Buffalo
- Successfully negotiated the release of a hostage from Moscow
- Is now sitting in a playoff spot with a team with no starting goaltender that was supposedly going to be the worst in the division and is powered seemingly by spite, broken hearts, brotherly love, John Tortorella crying over dogs that have been adopted, and Gritty in a giant Pride dress
Not bad for his first year as GM, huh?
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The Philadelphia Flyers single handedly fucking with hockey hrpf fans in the month of January in the Year of Our Lord Wayne Gretzky 2024.
First they break up the Zegras and Drysdale couple. (Though the Flyers & their fans are showing him ALL the love, and we got Z doing his online liking spree).
Then we got Nolpat visiting the Flyers locker room and talking to TK. Bcos they are close.
Flyers, if you somehow manage to get Carts & Rich in the same space I'll fucking die. Danny & Claude already had their VERY PUBLIC reunion.
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― Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet, Eavan Boland
Hockey Poetry Post 79/?
(Photo credit: Patrick Smith, Len Redkoles, Patrick Smith, Len Redkoles, Elsa, Tim Nwachukwu, Mitchell Leff, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Andre Ringuette, Jared Silber, Elsa, Jonathan Kozub, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Bruce Bennett, Len Redkoles, Len Redkoles, Brian Babineau, Chase Agnello-Dean)
for @kitebird-hockey. thank you for being the worlds most patient hockey historian 🧡
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wow...
Being a GM is half the time just parenting teens. And then you trade them w your relatives across the country when they tell you what you made for dinner sucks, go to their bedroom and never come out
*briere stroking drysdale's hair: our new son loves philly cheesesteaks
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