The majority of history’s best teams have a sort of cohesion with one another. The head coach who leads a team, and the general manager or president that builds it, have an understanding that the personnel needs to align, at least somewhat, with what the coaching staff wants.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but it makes a team a lot more cohesive if everyone is on the same page and can agree that they are seeing the same thing.
Nobody in the Flyers organization is currently seeing the same thing.
When John Tortorella raised issue with Tony DeAngelo’s defensive play (or lack thereof), recently, it marked yet another instance of the Flyers head coach publicly bemoaning some of Chuck Fletcher’s most high-profile acquisitions.