deadhead
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"The special assistant" was an outsider who spent a year observing, CF definitely did not want his potential successor looking over his shoulder. Briere worked for Maine, owned by Comcast but not affiliated with the Flyers.They promoted the special assistant to the GM to GM, promoted the broadcaster to president, kept the head coach, kept the assistant GM, I think kept all the assistant coaches (I can't remember if they replaced one?), kept Homer, kept all the senior advisors, added an additional crony advisor. Got rid of I think one scout. Oh and changed chairmen.
That's not exactly a house cleaning, that's just more Flyers nepotism and shuffling off a few people while replacing them with more company men.
Jones was a national broadcaster as well as Flyers, and spent most of his NHL career with other teams.
The HC basically forced out CF and Scott when they refused to commit to a rebuild by challenging their rose colored glasses script.
There is zero evidence that any of the senior advisors have any influence. Barber had Scott's ear, Clarke was pulling strings in FLA, and Holmgren was GM/President until he retired. The last two years, other than being polite to them as alumni, not one story from anyone about their involvement with any decision.
It's almost impossible to make a "clean break" b/c in the NHL, everyone is more a matter of 3 degrees of separation at best, Briere and Jones played for a half dozen teams, Torts on his fifth team, so practically anyone they hire for any position has some connection to at least one of them.