Daily News | In replacing Dave Scott, Dan Hilferty has to change just about everything about the Flyers
, but at least he understood he needed advisers — Scott had become the symbol for an organization that had lost its way and didn’t know how to recover. The atmosphere around the Flyers for years now has been a toxic mixture of indifference and anger: People had stopped caring about them, and those who did still care were furious with them, and that backlash went beyond the subpar product on the ice.
It was a reaction, in part, to the changes to the fan experience inside the Center. Some of those changes were obvious: the creation of a mascot, for instance. But there was a subtler shift, too, a sense that the longtime fans who just wanted to watch the Flyers play winning hockey were no longer the organization’s highest priority. Those fans didn’t need or want an in-game host or hostess donning an orange shirt and screaming into a microphone. They didn’t need Gritty.
“He’s no bulls—,” the source said. “He’s a big-picture guy, and he can read a room and get people excited.” Comcast Spectacor and the Flyers could use someone like that. The team’s terrible condition has hampered the company in the public-relations battle over the 76ers’
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