"He plays with an edge," so many hockey wonks will echo time-and-time again when asked to describe the type of player he is. Guess who's the prototypical Flyers player?ĭownie comes with a bad rep, some say wholly deserved. Then there's Downie: a menace, a pest, a shit-disturber, the type of hockey player that overcompensates for some of his short-comings talent-wise with freewheeling intensity - some would say, too much intensity the kind of intensity that can sometimes devolve into scary, selfish irresponsibility if it funnels out the wrong tube. There's Briere, sleek, polished, big shooter, enormous skill-level, but plays a scorer's finesse game. One's the typical non-Flyers type player and one is the prototypical Flyers player," he said. One hockey writer said he found it ironic that the Flyers signed Briere then brought 20 year-old Downie up to the show the same year. Briere's hair still wet, wire-rimmed glasses on, button-downed shirt tucked in a little too much inside his jeans, answering all the questions with a confident, almost academic cadence. There's Daniel Briere, the high-priced center the Flyers nabbed from the Buffalo Sabres this past off-season, part of a multi-million dollar 8-year contract that in the hopes of getting a playmaker, the Flyers made him one of the highest paid players in the league this year. The rest of the hockey newspaper mob is loafing around with their digital recorders, poking them in the faces of various Flyers as they wait patiently for each player to come out in various states of almost-dressed to jab the recorder in their face and get a meaningless quote about the upcoming Toronto series. It's one of those pool boogers, all white, and it quickly shoots back up his left nostril with a little sniff and a wipe. Standing in shower flops and black lycra shorts outside the locker room of the Flyers practice facility in Voorhees, he says he'll only be a few more minutes.
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