‘It’s a good tool for us’: How the Flyers’ front office approaches and aims to utilize the NHL draft combine

PHILADELPHIA — Listening to Flyers assistant general manager Brent Flahr list the tests that prospects go through at the NHL draft combine, Danny Brière started to laugh.

The combine didn’t exist when Brière was a prospect in 1996, and he was trying to picture what it would have been like for him to go through those tests as an 18-year-old.

“I think I weighed 140 pounds, and I was probably 5-foot-8 at the most,” Brière said. “My scores would have been way at the bottom if not last.”