HAS YOUR GENERAL MANAGER PLANNED A THREE+ YEAR LONG PROCESS TO FUCK OVER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE KID THAT REFUSED TO PLAY FOR YOUR TEAM?
i kid you not this offer sheet is a long time fucking coming and danny was sitting there watching the dominos perfectly fall into place before handing that paper to leo carlsson.
catalyst may 2023: c*tter refuses to sign with the flyers
domino zero, september 2023: the flyers hire bob murray to the front office. murray worked for the ducks from 2005-2021, was gm since 2008.
domino one, january 2024: c*tter and jamie trade. danny had his eye on trevor since then, too
domino two, june 2025: trevor trade. let me take this "problem player" off your hands, ok? look, this is also in consideration of the c*tter trade, so it's fine that our return is low, right? now you don't have to deal with him anymore :)
domino three, entirety of the 2025-26 season: verbeek does not sign his star, pending rfas (carlsson and mintyukov) before july first. bedard, fantilli are not signed either. the rfa contract slate is completely blank. danny has a time crunch, but the stage is his.
domino four, june 2026: mason mctavish gets traded. another moment that cements verbeek as someone who will throw out young players if they underperform. you don't think all the young guys aren't seeing this trend? zegras drysdale mctavish used to be the gauthier sennecke carlsson, in a way.
domino five, june 2026: vladar and foerster contracts get squared away. they both agree to lower aav, but longer term. saves the flyers a couple million they need to add extra spice to the offer sheet.
domino six, unspecified time: jamie and trevor do not fuck with the ducks. danny does not need to worry about them signing an offer sheet from the hands of pat verbeek. we know about trevor for sure, but i would bet everything that jamie hates his ass just as much, perhaps even more. he's just quiet about it.
domino seven, unspecified time: trevor is good friends with leo carlsson.
domino eight, june 2026: the ducks ship out so many players. they prepared for the young stars to come off their rfas and had contracts going accordingly like gudas, carlson etc. it was all too predictable and thus all too easy to throw a wrench in their cap allotment plans.
domino nine, june 2026: the random usamerican captain exodus is enough to cover the rumor headlines. and a good excuse on why trevor zegras' contract is taking long.
domino ten, june 2026: the rumor seeds danny let spread for a little bit about carlsson getting offer sheeted reached verbeek and annoyed him enough to make a statement about it. now danny gets to really play his bluff.
domino eleven, july 2026: other teams do not have the cap space or cap freedom to beat the offer sheet the flyers handed carlsson. it's a no brainer for him to sign this. and it's built perfectly to piss the sameuli's off, because of bob murray
domino twelve, july 2026: carlsson signs the offer sheet.
danny briere was a man who played for the flyers for six years. he met the love of his life there. he saw the extreme highs and lows of 2010's flyers hockey. the organization the city the fans whatever it was, was so enthralling he returned to work in the flyers front office. he was directly a part of the front office that was involved in the c*tter debacle. the fact that we assumed he kept it strictly business was an error on our end. what's the quote, revenge is a dish best served cold?
