Marchese & Friedman: Philly's Fresh Start

The Jeff Marek Show

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Matt Marchese hosts alongside Elliotte Friedman and reacts to Chuck Fletcher's firing from the Flyers' General Manager position, the timing of the decision, and if Daniel Briere is next in line for the role. Next, the pair look back on the Oilers win over the top-seeded Bruins, how Boston "shot themselves in the foot", and the early returns for Mattias Ekholm on Edmonton's blue line (12:00). Later on, Matt and Elliotte discuss what's ahead for Lou Lamoriello, the Dallas Stars' offensive onslaught in Buffalo, and Jared McCann's strong season in Seattle (20:00). The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	I had a whole show open ready and then I got a text this morning saying expect
0:08.1	changes in Philadelphia and if you haven't heard already Chuck Fletcher is out
0:12.1	as general manager of the
0:13.9	Philadelphia Flyers and Daniel Breyer steps in as the interim general manager.
0:18.4	Now Daniel Breyer has been part of this organization for a bit. So when Comcast bought the main mariners and EchHL
0:25.6	team, Daniel Breyer was running them and slowly but surely moved his way up to the front
0:30.4	office and then was special assistant to the general manager and I believe
0:34.4	that there was a thought out there that Daniel Breyer was eventually going to be the general
0:38.0	manager of this Philadelphia Flyers team and all that is fine.
0:42.1	Daniel Breyer is very well thought of in the
0:44.0	organization of course former flyer himself. There's a trend here so when when one or two GMs get jobs and they were former players with that organization,
0:57.7	I don't know if it's a coincidence, but it's certainly not a trend.
1:01.0	But when the third gets it it's a trend three of the
1:03.7	last four general managers of the Philadelphia Flyers have been you guessed it former Philadelphia Flyers they are Bobby Clark they are Paul Holmgren. They are Ron Hextal and now Daniel Breyer the interim general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers. Now here's what I wonder about where this thing goes. I think that Daniel Breyer is
1:26.2	going to end up being the full-time GM of the Philadelphia Flyers. I don't
1:29.8	I mean we'll talk to Elliot Freeman about it in a couple minutes but this if there was ever a slam dunk this kind of feels like it's it and so the question I have is how much autonomy did Chuck Fletcher actually have with this group?
1:43.0	How much did, you know, former, former players,
1:48.0	alumni that still are around the team,
1:51.0	how much say did they have? and will it be different for Daniel
1:54.8	Briere because he's a former flyer. Daniel Briere was a good flyer. He's a
2:01.7	very good flyer and now it does feel like he kind of
2:06.3	walks into this job and I'm curious to see how he is handled by former players, former managers, whatever the case may be.
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