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Confirmed with Link: Jarmo Fired, JD (& staff) named interim GM

It is, and was, time for Jarmo to go. I won’t be caught dancing on his grave, though. It shouldn’t go unappreciated how much he did for this team and city. Just try and remember what things were like for us in the winter of 2012/13.

Smart guy. Gave a shit. Drafted pretty well with late round picks. Maybe not the best trades but he had some great ones and he always had the balls to pull the trigger.

I’ll miss him.
 
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CBJx614 said:
Yes it is. Everyone outside of the dynasties that Tampa, Washington, Pitt and Boston created all of those other teams made it once. The goal isn't to just get close, it's become a yearly threat. None of those teams had to tear down and restart right in the middle of their peak. Ottawa and Montreal are now rebuilding. Washington and Pitt are currently in the last year or two of their windows.

The East is about to be wide open for teams to seize that power vacancy and CBJ are primed for it.
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OK.

I pointed out that 9 teams in the CBJ conference had made the CF (and I may have missed one). I guess that I didn't refute your point.
 
WannabeFinn said:
It is, and was, time for Jarmo to go. I won’t be caught dancing on his grave, though. It shouldn’t go unappreciated how much he did for this team and city. Just try and remember what things were like for us in the winter of 2012/13.

Smart guy. Gave a shit. Drafted pretty well with late round picks. Maybe not the best trades but he had some great ones and he always had the balls to pull the trigger.

I’ll miss him.
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This is my thought as well. I appreciate what the guy did, but the time had come to make a move. Actually the time had come earlier, but better late than never I guess.
 
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I would also would have liked to have seen JD handed his walking papers but I guess someone has to be in charge of any TDL moves. I don't like that he will be participating in the new GM hiring decision either, but that has to be better than just Mike Priest making the hiring decision. To me this feels like Moe and Larry firing Curly which will likely lead to Shemp being hired.
 
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Jive Pawnbroker said:
I would also would have liked to have seen JD handed his walking papers but I guess someone has to be in charge of any TDL moves. I don't like that he will be participating in the new GM hiring decision either, but that has to be better than just Mike Priest making the hiring decision. To me this feels like Moe and Larry firing Curly which will likely lead to Shemp being hired.
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This should be JDs job security at this point...

 
SO as I've had a moment to sit and think about this, what do we think was the last straw?

Was it the handling of the 3 goalie situation blowing up? it's obviously been building up over time but there had to be something that made them realize it is time.
 
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Iron Balls McGinty said:
SO as I've had a moment to sit and think about this, what do we think was the last straw?

Was it the handling of the 3 goalie situation blowing up? it's obviously been building up over time but there had to be something that made them realize it is time.
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I think it was just a lot of little things that finally couldn't be ignored when JD came back after his back surgery, as he said. I don't know that there is any one individual smoking gun here. It's such a mountain of needles that they could no longer ignore and pretend were just straw.
 
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squashmaple said:
I think it was just a lot of little things that finally couldn't be ignored when JD came back after his back surgery, as he said. I don't know that there is any one individual smoking gun here. It's such a mountain of needles that they could no longer ignore and pretend were just straw.
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Yeah. I don't see it was one big issue but I just wonder if it was 1 small one that pushed it over the edge and made them realize it was time. You would have thought the Babcock thing would have been enough.
 
Iron Balls McGinty said:
SO as I've had a moment to sit and think about this, what do we think was the last straw?

Was it the handling of the 3 goalie situation blowing up? it's obviously been building up over time but there had to be something that made them realize it is time.
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Porty’s article said Priest has been gathering intel on potential candidates for months.

So I’m going to guess it was the 9 game winless streak or whatever it was.
 
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Iron Balls McGinty said:
Yeah. I don't see it was one big issue but I just wonder if it was 1 small one that pushed it over the edge and made them realize it was time. You would have thought the Babcock thing would have been enough.
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It should have been, absolutely. It should have cost all of these chuckle***ks their jobs. I have never been as nuclear-reactor-furious at a professional sports team as I was all summer about that hiring, both the hiring itself then the inevitable humiliation when it failed before training camp even started. And I grew up a Cleveland sports fan.
 
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In all fairness to JD, this team started going to hell in a hand basket when he left to go to NY and Jarmo was in charge of everything. He has been semi invisible since he came back with his health issues.

I'm sure he'll move more toward retirement as time goes on but I think they'd like to keep him around and hope it leads to some stability. it almost sounds like he's been a bit out of the loop a lot this year with his back issues, etc.
 
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He should have been fired for firing Babcock. Not hiring him. This sad team needs babcocks energy and coaching. The team should have told the players to STFU and stop complaining. They haven’t earned the right to fire a coach.
 
squashmaple said:
I think it was just a lot of little things that finally couldn't be ignored when JD came back after his back surgery, as he said. I don't know that there is any one individual smoking gun here. It's such a mountain of needles that they could no longer ignore and pretend were just straw.
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Also based on tone of the discussions that JD sounds like he's going to consider retirement. Considering he's 70 now, probably starting to get health problems that prevent some of the functions of his job (based on the reasons used today) and with a "new era" starting sounds like the perfect time for a retirement. There are many sounds of rumors from the insiders today that this is a strong possibility and I don't doubt it. Sounds like JD is just keeping the lights on the rest of the year and have a new FO take over during the summer. Basically a firing disguised as a retirement so they can maintain some dignity which isn't uncommon in the business world
 
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