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The Flyers PR Staff was lead by a bull dog in Zack Hill until yesterday. Hill has officially elected to retire, thus ending an era of greatness. Hill is the embodiment of greatness, he’s one of the nicest human beings I have had the pleasure of getting to know.
Hill was the Senior Director of Communications. He has quietly guided the Flyers PR Staff to three Dillman Awards in the past ten years. The first was in 2012, as the PR Staff was given the Dillman Award for their excellence in media relations departments in both conferences, the second Dillman Award was awarded in the 2015 season from the Eastern Conference, and lastly the final Dillman Award was awarded in 2018 from the Eastern Conference.
One of the nicest guys I know in Hill graduated from West Virginia, where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Science. He became an elementary school teacher, but left the career after pursuing his Master’s degree in journalism. He was fortunate to work for the Philadelphia 76ers as an intern, and they eventually promoted Hill to the Director of Public Relations position.
The guru in Hill left the 76ers organization to join the Flyers organization in 1993. Hill hasn’t looked back as he handled all media relations requests, attends practices, lines up press credentials, preps game notes, photographs at times, comforts players, and makes players available to media. Moreover, Hill was a busy bee that never stopped working, as he did his job very well. If a person needed anything, Hill was there.
I’ll never forget the moment I first emailed Zack back in 2016. I asked him if I could interview Sean Couturier and Pierre-Édouard Bellemarea s I was working on a penalty killing piece. He told me “Sure” and gave me a date and time for practice. From there our relationship grew into a friendship, to which now we text each other at least once a week. He’s just a genuine person, and you don’t see that everyday. This friendship won’t end, it’s just not beginning.
Cheers Zack, ride off into the sunset, you earned it.
