Daily News | Dan Hilferty and the Flyers are ushering out the old guard and finally charting a new path forward
and the chairman of the Flyers, Dan Hilferty, then a freshman, stole away from St. Joseph’s University in the spring of 1975, got himself from City Avenue to Broad Street, and savored the city’s second Stanley Cup parade in 12 months. Born in Delaware County and raised in Ocean City, he comes by his Flyers fandom honestly and with a genuine appreciation for the team’s history and for the three men he referred to as “the foundational titans of the franchise.
“There’s an inscription in Washington as you drive along Pennsylvania Avenue to the National Archives that says, ‘The past is prologue,’” Hilferty said Saturday morning in an interview on WIP-FM . “What I like to say is, unless you know your past, unless you cherish the foundational titans of your past, you can’t move forward into a new world. So in terms of Bob Clarke, Paul Holmgren, Bill Barber, they are foundational titans, and they will always be part of this family as long as I am here.
Hilferty is well aware of the fine line he has to tread here. There are segments of the Flyers’ fan base who would be content if Clarke, Barber, and Holmgren were barred from the Wells Fargo Center, but Hilferty knows that freezing them out is not a realistic solution. He came to Comcast Spectacor after heading two giant health-care companies, sure, but he also was a vice president for media relations at St. Joe’s and spent years working in politics.
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