Beginning with tomorrow’s home opener against the Penguins, the Flyers will host a frontline worker and up to three family members at all home games during the '20-21 season. The Flyers, who still aren’t authorized for general admission inside Wells Fargo Center, worked with city officials to gain approval, according to Chief Business Officer Mike Shane. Flyers sponsor Belfor Property Restoration will be attached to the initiative, dubbed the Flyers Frontline Families Program. Honorees will be selected through a nomination process via the team’s website.
“It’s really the next step in the efforts that we started back in the spring to help support and recognize the men and women of our community who have either been impacted by or are helping to combat the COVID-19 pandemic,” Shane said to THE DAILY. “What we’ve seen over the past 10 months in the Philadelphia area is an incredible sense of service and outreach. With the season coming up, we’ve made it a priority to help celebrate people who’ve helped service others through this extremely difficult stretch.”
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For tomorrow’s game, the club will recognize Amanda Hatheway, a nurse at St. Mary’s Medical Center, and her husband, Josh, who is an EMT and clinical lead for emergency room technicians at St. Mary’s. They’ll be situated behind the Flyers bench and socially distanced from team mascot Gritty, who will be stationed nearby.
Shane said that there will be a pregame player stick raise to the Hatheways and their two accompanying sons in addition to an in-game feature on NBC Sports Philadelphia. The Flyers will support the efforts across social and web, too. All honored frontline workers will receive similar call-outs in addition to commemorative game tickets and a digital clip from their recognition during the broadcast.
