The Philadelphia Flyers continued to add former players to their front office staff, with John LeClair joining as a special advisor to hockey operations, the team announced on Thursday.
LeClair will work alongside Patrick Sharp, who was hired as a special advisor on Tuesday, in the club’s hockey operations department with a focus player development with Flyers prospects.
“Adding in John LeClair to work in conjunction with Patrick Sharp and the rest of our hockey operations group will be a powerful combination with their vast hockey knowledge and a team-first mentality,” said president of hockey operations Keith Jones in a statement. “John has been around the NHL and the game for a long time and knows what it takes to bring the core ethics of our foundation to the Philadelphia Flyers.”
LeClair was traded to the Flyers in 1995 by the Montreal Canadiens and would go on to play 649 games in Philadelphia, recording 333 goals and 643 points. The 53-year-old won a Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1993, and a silver medal with the U.S. at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
LeClair was inducted into the University of Vermont Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001, the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009, the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Flyers Hall of Fame in 2014.