Daniel Briere

IT’S BEEN QUITE THE JOURNEY FROM GATINEAU, QUEBEC, TO A PRODUCTIVE NHL CAREER TO GM OF THE FLYERS, BUT BRIERE HAS BEEN LISTENING AND LEARNING EVERY STEP OF THE WAY

WITH W. GRAEME ROUSTAN

W. GRAEME ROUSTAN: Danny, let’s go back in time, all the way back to Quebec. Let’s go back to little Danny playing peewee hockey and stuff like that. Where do you come from? And how did you get here? DANIEL BRIERE: I grew up in Gatineau, Quebec, and played minor hockey there until I was 13 and left for Amos, Quebec, to play midget AAA. At 14, I left home, then came back the following year to play another year in my hometown and then was drafted into the QMJHL by Drummondville and spent three years there. In my second year, I was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes, late in the first round, which was really exciting that I would go in the first round with my size at the time and…

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