Danny Briere’s third trade deadline as Flyers GM came and went and that was pretty much it

Drew Smith
March 6, 2026
Flyers
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Danny Briere became the full-time General Manager of the Philadelphia Flyers on May 11th, 2023. Friday was his third trade deadline in that role. Here is the complete summary of what happened.

David Jiricek for Bobby Brink. Brett Harrison and Jackson Edward for Massimo Rizzo and Alexis Gendron. A conditional 2027 seventh-round pick for Nic Deslauriers.

That’s it. That was the deadline.

The Philadelphia Flyers are a directionless hockey team (still)

Danny Briere’s 3rd trade deadline since becoming the full-time GM on May 11th, 2023:

– David Jiricek for Bobby Brink
– Brett Harrison & Jackson Edward for Massimo Rizzo & Alexis Gendron
– A conditional 2027 7th round pick for Nic Deslauriers

That’s it. That was trade…
— TLY (@TheLibertyYell) March 6, 2026

The Flyers are six points out of a wild card spot with 21 games left. They are in a legitimate playoff race for the first time in years and the fan base is genuinely invested in this team in a way that has not existed in a long time.

This was the moment to push the chips in a little, right? Well, apparently not. Listen, I don’t pretend to know much about the Philadelphia Flyers or hockey in general. I leave that to Derek and Stumps and whoever else is talking puck at The Liberty Yell.

Fine. Whatever. Here’s what I do know. I want to win hockey games. I’m not doing this whole cry baby Flyers thing where everyone wants to “rebuild” for the 20th year in a row. It’s like 76ers fans who enjoyed “The Process” and completely ignoring that it was the most miserable time in the history of Philadelphia basketball.

Flyers fans have been beaten into submission by Comcast and an organization that literally doesn’t give a fuck about winning and personally, I find that to be unacceptable.

I’m not saying that Briere moving Bobby Brink, who had 94 points in 201 games with the Flyers, was going to be anything more than a second or third line winger. But now we have, by the true definition of the word, a “bust” in 22-year-old defenseman in David Jiricek who will report to Lehigh Valley.

Jiricek was believed to real upside but he is not helping this team at all. All the other moves are basically irrelevant anyways. Briere sent Deslauriers to Carolina for a conditional seventh-rounder in 2027 and swapped AHL depth pieces with Boston.

THATS DIRECTIONLESS HOCKEY.

Maybe I’m the crazy one? 6 points out of the ‘yoffs with 21 left? No one wants to win hockey games around here? That’s the point right? If we don’t then this becomes another “Process” situation where losing is acceptable and we all turn into crying children while the Flyers beat reporters are on their knees doing the bidding of the organization.

I know there wasn’t many moves to make but I’m just trying to move in either direction and sorry, I’m going to take the winning route, regardless of how stupid it might seem, every time.

If the Flyers want me to get on board with being complete morons at every opportunity, then act like it. Trade everyone. We should’ve seen Tippett, Risto Seeler and even Konecny shipped along with Bobby Brink.

At least that way, we’d get stabbed from the front, right?

Oh? We didn’t ship any of those guys out?

We made… the moves listed above instead?

Well sorry, Flyers fans, that tells me the team should have been trying to add instead of subtract. It sucks either way but again, I want to win hockey games. At some point the future and the present have to coexist and right now there is a team six points out of the playoffs that is completely directionless.

The fans aren’t happy and rightfully so. Three deadlines in. Still waiting for Danny Briere to make a move that says the Flyers are coming for something… anything.

The Flyers are 28-22-11 with 67 points, sitting sixth in the Metropolitan Division and six points back of the Bruins for the second wild card spot with 21 games left.

Thursday and Friday combined did not feel like a step forward in any direction but sure, let’s all just cry and bitch about the Flyers instead of actually wanting to win hockey games I guess. Trust the process. Idiots.