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The season before Daniel Briere arrived in Philadelphia, he came off a 95 Point Season with the Buffalo Sabres.  Briere did not hit that mark again but the Centre did have two seasons for Philadelphia of 68 or more Points and a solid .78 Points per Game Average with the Flyers.  Briere was at his best in the post season for Philadelphia where his PPG increased to 1.06 and in the 2010 Playoffs Briere would help the Flyers reach the Stanley Cup Finals and he was the post season leader in Assists.  He would be named to the All Star team the following year.

Traded midway through the 1976/77 season from the Vancouver Canucks, Bob Dailey may have missed the Stanley Cup days but he was still a contributor on some very good Flyers teams.  The one time tallest player in hockey (6’ 5”) would have two straight 30 Assist seasons, the first of which saw the blueliner put the puck in the net for a career high 21, which along with his 57 Points would set (since broken) records for a Flyers Defenseman.  Dailey would be named an All Star that year and later in 1981. 

Dave Poulin got off to a really slow start in hockey, which makes sense as he began his athletics as a figure skater and saw hockey as a way to get a scholarship, which he did to Notre Dame.  After college he played a season in Sweden, the Flyers signed him and he would quickly prove to be valuable scoring 76, 74, 69 and 70 Points in his first four full seasons with Philadelphia.  Exceptional on the penalty kill, Poulin was skilled on his own side of the ice where he would win the Frank J. Selke Award in 1987.  That accolade was bookended by two All Star Games.  Poulin would score 394 Points for the Flyers over his 467 Games while playing for them.
From Sweden, Mikael Renberg was a rookie sensation in 1993/94 where he would score 82 Points and was put on a line with John LeClair and Eric Lindros to form the very popular “Legion of Doom”.  Renberg would never have a season like his rookie season but he would have another two 50 Point seasons with Philly.  Renberg would be traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1997 but the fan favorite would return again for two and a half seasons when Tampa traded him back to the Flyers.