One thing I was thinking about tonight, especially in the context of the development of Patrick, Lindblom and TK, is the fact that the Flyers don't have a really successful former star forward on the coaching staff. All of our coaches in the NHL and AHL are goalies and defensemen and ... Lappy. The last one we had was Mullen.
Gordon is not a good offensive coach by any means and while he's done plenty of tinkering on the PP, he doesn't seem to be as good at that as he is with changing around the PK.
Maybe it's not a huge deal, but it seems weird that we have so many former Flyers stars in coaching jobs around the league (Brindy, Tocchet, Recchi) and we've never gone after those guys. They're working for Pittsburgh or Carolina, who have vastly superior systems.
Great players often don't make great coaches, of course, but it would have been nice to have a former 40-goal scorer around to talk to Patrick and TK instead of f***ing Hakstol.
Can we at least make Briere a VP of something and assistant GM and get him in Philly to hang out with the kids once in awhile?