What I've read of Fletcher's comments, he was definitely aggressively pitching JVR to other teams. His skill, his playoff experience, the fact that he'd only cost you 50 cents on the dollar. Nobody was buying because even at 50 cents on the dollar few teams could still take on the reduced cap hit, or at least they could find someone with a lower cap hit who was also possiblly better. He also specifically said he'd been trying to move JVR for three weeks (but I know, angry mob ) and would have taken back a contract, or conditional picks. The Detroit offer was the first one he got over those three weeks, with 80 minutes to spare. And then it fell apart.
The Wings were the team that was going to take JVR though. He was going to replace someone else they intended to trade off their roster.
When they finally do fire Fletcher it will just be insult to injury that they wasted this year (and more). Though I suppose if they had fired him that would have just left Holmgren running the trade deadline (just like Gillick his second time with the Phillies except Gillick was better at his job - though not so much by then).
I think Dave Scott is tighter with Brian Roberts than with Ralph Roberts. They are both in their 60s, and Brian is the guy who hired Scott originally in the '90s (when he was already Comcast president).
The issue with Scott is the Flyers are just a small part of his job. They could make Camillo the team governor, but both of them are running a much bigger business in which the wins and losses and even attendance and ratings for the hockey team are just a sliver of the overall picture. That Holmgren was still president and Fletcher also replaced him as president is likely part of the problem. Scott doesn't need to be replaced necessarily; there just needs to be a Luuko (or Dombrowski) type at the top of the team organization, who can also be trusted to hire a good GM. Maybe that is Briere, though I'm still leery of any Comcast insider. Selling the team and getting out from corporate ownership would still be better.