
Kevin Kurz
Staff Writer at The Athletic
Hockey writer @TheAthleticNHL based in Philadelphia 🔔 Witness to two reverse sweeps 🧹 Previous stops: Bay Area 2011-21 💻 NYC 2021-23 🗽
Articles
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Kurz
It's been just over two years since Daniel Briere became the Philadelphia Flyers' full-time general manager and the rebuild officially began. That means the fruits of the unpleasant labor over the past two seasons, in which Briere has subtracted from the NHL team much more than he has added, in the name of rebuilding the system, should finally start to appear. It's going to be gradual, though.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Kurz
Here's what we're pretty sure we know about how the Philadelphia Flyers are going to approach the coming offseason. No, they are not going to spend frivolously in free agency when it opens on July 1.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Kurz
It was an NHL baptism by fire for Rick Tocchet 40 years ago. Not only was the winger jumping into the league just one year after he was drafted, but the 1984-85 Philadelphia Flyers were a talent-laden club led by a first-year head coach, Mike Keenan, who quickly established a reputation as a hard-nosed guy who would often employ abrasive tactics.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Kurz
PHILADELPHIA - It's already well-established how tight the bond is between Rick Tocchet and Keith Jones. That was reinforced on Friday at Wells Fargo Center, as Tocchet was officially introduced as the Philadelphia Flyers' 25th head coach.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Kurz
It's an established pattern in the NHL - teams rotating through the same inventory of coaches over and over, in the hopes that the experience they have gained in their previous stops will help them to immediately get off on the right foot in their new locales. Rick Tocchet, 61, is now firmly one of them.
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