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O’Connor: Zegras trade important not just because of the player, but for what it says about GM Daniel Briere and his rebuild

June 23, 2025

Mar 18, 2025; Dallas, Texas, USA; Anaheim Ducks center Trevor Zegras (11) during the first period against the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images

The 2025 offseason was always going to be an enormously important one for general manager Daniel Briere and the Philadelphia Flyers.
Part of it was simply the circumstances: when a club has a top-10 draft pick, six more within the first 48 selections, and a not-insignificant amount of newly-available space under the salary cap, the resulting summer is going to have the potential to be franchise-defining. But it went beyond that. Given the sheer number of assets available, the rookie-season emergence of Matvei Michkov, and the team's relatively uneventful 2024 offseason, Briere needed to do something, anything, to show that he understood how important this particular stretch meant for the lon...

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