Flyers’ bold bid to poach Leo Carlsson via offer sheet failed. Briere cannot be scared off by that failure
There’s a scene in the fantasy television show Game of Thrones when the character Jon Snow, just after literally reviving from the dead after being murdered by his underlings, laments his plight to his friend and future advisor Davos Seaworth.
“I did what I thought was right,” he ruminates, “and they killed me for it. I failed.”
“Good,” Davos responds, reiterating the importance of continuing to fight for a better world. “Now go fail again.”
Philadelphia Flyers general manager Daniel Briere wasn’t killed on Thursday when the Anaheim Ducks matched the Flyers’ five-year, $90 million offer sheet for Leo Carlsson. But he did objectively fail, fail in his attempt to address the glaring 1C issue that remains his rebuild’s biggest missing piece, fail in his attempt to poach the 21-year Carlsson from the Ducks.
And now, he needs to go out and try — and potentially fail — again.
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