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general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers. Hi, Stephanie. Hi, Chuck. How you doing? I'm doing well.

Thank you. Good. I'm glad. Thank you for taking the time to talk to me today. I really appreciate it.

No problem. No problem. When you came to Philadelphia midseason 2018, which is given the pandemic both decades ago and

also yesterday, what have you learned about the Philadelphia Flyers organization that you didn't

know prior to taking the job? Oh, that's a good question.

You know, certainly of all the teams I've worked with over the years,

I would say that the flyers are the most entrenched in the community of any organization I've been in,

obviously established back in 67.

So you have decades of history and familiarity,

both the organization with the fan base and the fan base with the organization. So it's an extremely passionate fan base,

probably the most passionate fan base I've certainly seen. But I think until you get here and you see

kind of the flyers tentacles into the community and and just how established

it is. I don't think I appreciated that sort of the depth of that history and the depth of that

relationship. And what has been, if you could say one highlight of your time here professionally or

personally? Well, well, it was being named the

gentle manager of the flyers. That was, that was pretty cool. We're not an original six franchise,

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