Daily News | Sources: Three Flyers legends had no say in Danny Brière’s promotion or Chuck Fletcher’s firing
have been stuck in a toxic trap of nostalgia. They’ve been held hostage to Three Wise Men, legends as players who now sit in secluded offices, operating without accountability, peddling favors and favoritism to connections who see the game through the same mottled, last-century lenses as they still see it.
Ever since Clarke became a playing assistant coach in 1978, one of the trio of Flyers demigods has had a hand in how the franchise moved forward. Clarke is the club’s Babe Ruth, but all three were favorites of late owner Ed Snider, revered for their loyalty as much as for their skill and toughness and intelligence. That loyalty went both ways. Now, though, it is waning. The Three Wise Men will probably never have a meaningful voice in Flyers affairs again.
“It’s not the ‘Broad Street Bullies’ from the 70′s and 80′s,” Brière told 97.5 The Fanatic in an interview Friday. To their delight Fletcher in the following spring hired old-school coach Alain Vigneault, which was unwise. After Vigneault’s inevitable firing three seasons later, he hired Clarke and Holmgren favorite John Tortorella, which has been even less wise.
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