Don’t look now, but the Flyers management team that for the past two years has been threatening to go back to its retro winning formula has really taken a step in that direction.

With ex-Flyers Keith Jones and Danny Briere running the show, they have gone full 1980s Philly vogue, first by hiring Rick Tocchet as head coach, and now by drafting power forward Porter Martone with the No. 6 overall pick in the first round of Friday’s NHL Draft.

The suspicion when Tocchet was hired in May was that he was a favorite choice of his longtime friend and attitudinal cohort Jones. But Briere, who once was a Tocchet teammate, showed he’s feeling ever more comfortable in his general manager’s role with those two by his side.

He had promised before the draft to include Tocchet in discussions about maneuvers, saying, “When you hire a coach, he fits into the vision that we had. Tocc is very much on board with what we’re trying to do. That was one of the things that got him excited about this team, is the direction it’s going in. I think we’re all on board there.”

Being on board is one thing. Emulating Tocchet’s Flyers roots is another.

So the Italian kid from the Toronto suburbs who was a physical power forward with somewhat hidden offensive skills just more than 40 years ago who would develop into a Flyers star despite being a sixth-round draft choice in 1983 … is now going to oversee the development of two 18-year-olds drafted Friday night who very intentionally come from that same physical mold.

Both No. 6 overall pick Porter Martone and surprise get Jack Nesbitt, a power forward and a center selected at No. 12, made their marks in the OHL junior ranks with physical play and offensive skill.

Martone’s talents were obvious, so much so that he played for Team Canada in the IIHF World Championships last spring. That’s a very adult tournament, where Martone counted among his teammates Travis Konecny, Travis Sanheim and Tyson Foerster.

“All three of those guys were tremendous to me,” Martone said. “One thing I noticed over there was how much they loved being a Flyer and how much they took pride in being a Flyer.”

Martone has skills. He scored 37 goals and 98 points with a plus-19 rating in only 57 games for Brampton of the OHL. He figures to line up at right wing eventually and try to make like a new and improved version of Tocchet, running over people to create room to score with an impressive shot.

As for the eventually part, maybe he’s not looking that far down the road.

“I want to get bigger, faster and stronger,” said the 6-foot-3, 205-pound Martone. “If I do want to make the jump to the NHL, I do need to put on some more weight in the gym. I’ll just continue to work, you know? I’m going every day, just trying to get better. … I’ve got to take it step by step at a time, but I do want to go into training camp next year and try to crack the lineup.”

That’s a tall order for an 18-year-old. But then Tocchet cracked the Flyers lineup just more than a year after he was drafted.

Nesbitt was clearly a kid Jones and Briere had their eyes on. They traded their two remaining first-round picks, at Nos. 22 and 31, to rival Pittsburgh to get to 12 for Nesbitt, ranked by Central Scouting at 20th overall.

He’s 6-4, 185 pounds and could push some people around. He scored 25 goals and 64 points in 65 games for Windsor last season, 15 of his goals coming in Windsor’s last 10 games. He was named the OHL’s most improved player.

:”It meant a lot,” he said. “I put a lot of work into it. A lot of it had to do with confidence.”

He’s a young guy who likely is two years away, but with a rocketing upside. More importantly, he’s a physical center, something the Flyers haven’t seen in a long, long time.

Meanwhile, when Martone was a young kid, he went to a game at Wells Fargo Center on his birthday and literally saw his name in lights on the scoreboard. Little wonder, since a Flyers center named Claude Giroux was on a poster in his basement at home.

Giroux wouldn’t exactly be a prototypical idol for a player who plays big, though Giroux never backed down in any kind of scrum. But Martone also greatly admired one of Giroux’s close teammates, saying he was hooked when Wayne Simmonds talked to his youth hockey team one day.

“I’ve always known the Flyers as kind of a hard-nosed organization,” said Martone, appropriately accenting the capital “i” in “organization.” “They put it all on the line. And that’s something I like to do. That’s the way I play.

“So yeah, I’d say Wayne Simmonds and Claude Giroux for sure, I looked up to them when I was a little kid.”

Now he wants to be among a new generation of Flyers, and he wants to do so as quickly as possible.

“When I went over to the World Championships, I was with NHL players and I think proved I can do that … I think I proved that I fit in,” he said. “I think I can excel at that level one day. I’ll work to get better every single day.”