Welcome to RANKED. Each week we will be ranking players, moments and anything else we can think of, hockey or not. This week, with the NHL’s trade deadline in the rearview mirror, we are looking back at Danny Briere’s moves since taking over as Flyers general manager, and ranking them.
The Philadelphia Flyers have had a few different visions over the past decade-plus. Paul Holmgren was in it to win it every year, even if that meant sneaking into the playoffs while mortgaging the future. Ron Hextall went the opposite direction with a drawn-out rebuild that came up empty.