Quick Hits: May 14, 2023
1) Team USA ran its preliminary round record at the 2023 IIHF World Championships to 2-0-0 with a 7-1 blowout win over Hungary at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland. The Americans opened the tourney with a 4-1 win over host Finland. Flyers prospect Cutter Gauthier has scored a goal in back-to-back game after surviving a scare in a pretournament exhibition game against Germany in which Gauthier left in the second period after being elbowed in the head by Germany's Nico Sturm. Flyers/Phantoms defenseman Ronnie Attard led all players in the Hugary game with six shots on goal but did not get on the scoresheet.
2) Team Canada is now 2-0-0 at the Worlds following a 6-0 shutout of Latvia and a 5-2 win over Slovenia. Alternate captain Scott Laughton scored a goal in the Latvia game. He did not record a point in the second match.
3) On PhiladelphiaFlyers.com, Brian Smith profiles Keith Jones' decision to leave the broadcast booth and accept an offer to become the Flyers' new President of Hockey Operations.
Later today on the official site, we'll have an article that I authored, tracing Danny Briere's journey from a late-blooming NHL player to a fast-rising executive who was a finalist for the Montreal Canadiens' GM job two years ago and is now the Flyers' general manager.
4) ICYMI: Video of Friday's introductory press conference at the Wells Fargo Center for the Flyers' new management group is embedded below.