Greg WyshynskiESPN3 Minute Read
Philadelphia Flyers interim common supervisor Daniel Briere acknowledged the workforce wants a multiyear rebuild as he campaigns to earn the job on a everlasting foundation.
Briere, 45, changed GM Chuck Fletcher on Friday. Fletcher, who was fired after 5 seasons, was additionally the workforce’s president of hockey operations. Briere stated he could be honored to fill both job opening however was centered on the overall supervisor’s place.
“I haven’t got an issue with the interim tag. I believe [ownership is] going to take the right time to judge who ought to be full-time in that place. I see myself staying right here and being a part of the long run. I hope they consider in me as effectively. It feels that means,” he stated.
Briere performed with the Flyers for six seasons throughout his 17-year NHL profession. He was employed as a particular assistant to Fletcher final yr and was concerned in selections such because the hiring of coach John Tortorella.
Dave Scott, the chairman of Comcast Spectacor and governor of the Flyers, has known as the workforce’s path again to Stanley Cup rivalry “a multiyear course of.” Briere agreed with that timetable.
“There’s little doubt in my thoughts that this is not a fast repair. It’s going to take a short time,” stated Briere.
Fletcher famously stated final season that the Flyers wanted “an aggressive retool” relatively than a rebuild. While Briere stated he wasn’t afraid to name the following section of the workforce a “rebuild,” he cautioned that does not imply Philadelphia will “have a whole new workforce” subsequent season.
“We must watch out. I need to ensure that ‘rebuild’ doesn’t suggest fireplace sale,” Briere stated. “There’s a giant distinction between the 2. So I need to make that clear. We’re not going eliminate all people. We have some good gamers right here, some gamers which might be in sure roles that we will maintain as effectively.”
Briere stated his subsequent few months can be spent evaluating gamers and hockey operations workers with an eye fixed towards the long run, getting the prospect to “dive slightly deeper” into the gamers on the roster and within the Flyers’ system.
Briere anticipates that assistant common supervisor Brent Flahr will stay in place by means of the season and as a part of the Flyers’ NHL draft preparation. But Briere was noncommittal when requested about how the workforce’s senior advisers match into his imaginative and prescient for the Flyers. Former NHL common managers Paul Holmgren, Bobby Clarke and Dean Lombardi, in addition to former coach Bill Barber, have come below scrutiny for a way a lot affect they’ve behind the scenes with Flyers possession.
“I’ve lots of respect for these guys for what they’ve achieved of their profession each on and off the ice,” Briere stated. “I’ve been on this place for 48 hours. I’ve had a fast chat with them. But at this level, that is all that is occurred. So we’ll see shifting ahead occurs there.”
As for his job prospects, Briere stated he wasn’t involved about his lack of front-office expertise. Before changing into particular assistant to Fletcher, he ran the day-to-day operations of the ECHL Maine Mariners, a minor-league workforce the Flyers had bought. Briere additionally stated he studied the overall managers for whom he performed, together with Holmgren, Buffalo’s Darcy Regier and Colorado’s Joe Sakic.
“There’s little doubt in my thoughts that I can do the job. I’m going to have some nice individuals round me as effectively. It’s not one thing that I’m going to do alone,” Briere stated. “I’m not gonna lie: It’s one thing that I noticed myself doing from early on after I was enjoying. I at all times believed that I might be on this place in the future.”
