Confirmed with Link: Keith Jones actually set to be named real life part-time President of Hockey Operations, Danny Briere full-time GM

[Young Sandwich]

I'm just pissed at myself for having the tiniest glimmer of hope. Reality is a swift kick in the dick.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

 

[Redpath]

What better way to “Tell The Story” than for him to sit there and keep on spewing propaganda?

Why can't Val Camillo "tell the story" when she is talking to "sponsors, season ticket holders, and the fan base?" Why can't Briere?

Such a bogus spin.

 

[BiggE]

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I wonder how many people they actually interviewed and/or were asked if they wanted to interview and declined. No one in a good situation is going to come here anytime soon. The dark times are here and there is no end in sight to it ending

 

[Jack Straw]

Wait, what?

 

[IronMarshal]

What is Val going to do when Jonesy farts during a meeting?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Wait, what?

It’s ok. The position is meaningless and Briere and Tortorella are on the case.

Please pay no attention to how this hire once again highlights the incompetence of this franchise which in turn highlights the likelihood that Briere will be a massive failure.

 

[dragonoffrost]

I wonder how many people they actually interviewed and/or were asked if they wanted to interview and declined. No one in a good situation is going to come here anytime soon. The dark times are here and there is no end in sight to it ending

17 phone calls

 

[BiggE]

Wait, what?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Everything is awful.

 

[Redpath]

It’s ok. The position is meaningless and Briere and Tortorella are on the case.

Please pay no attention to how this hire once again highlights the incompetence of this franchise which in turn highlights the likelihood that Briere will be a massive failure.

To be fair, this position is meaningless in so how it's been publicly defined.

Of course, that definition is also because of incompetence. But that doesn't change that fact that the team chose to make this position meaningless.

 

[prototypical4thliner]

On a good note, they’ve clearly fixed the leaks. We definitely didn’t see this shit coming.

 

[Redpath]

On a good note, they’ve clearly fixed the leaks. We definitely didn’t see this shit coming.

Something was ovbviously up on Monday when Friedman got a "warning" from a source that the hiring could be someone that no one had reported on yet.

 

[BernieParent]

I wonder how many people they actually interviewed and/or were asked if they wanted to interview and declined. No one in a good situation is going to come here anytime soon. The dark times are here and there is no end in sight to it ending

They made 17 phone calls. What more can be asked of them?

And thanks to @GKJ for a truly inspired thread title.

 

[Beef Invictus]

At one time, the Washington Commanders were the worst run team in professional sports.

The Philadelphia Flyers? They just broke the glass toilet bowl the Commanders established.

Now, there's a little part of me that goes Briere and Jones can be somewhat successful in this debacle, but it's going to be tough. The four horsemen are still there. If Jones can get them fired or somehow leave the organization, I might change my tune, but this has the potential to be REALLY bad. It's already Commanders bad and that's no standard any organization should aspire to....

 

[tictactoe]

lol... this team...

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

This is certainly one of the hirings of all time

 

[SI90]

Briere officially GM

 

[dragonoffrost]

Briere officially GM

Welcome to another clown show

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

At least the won't be in the booth anymore.

Will he?

Given what his "job" actually is, I think he can squeeze in 82 games.

I've given up trying to figure out where rock bottom is.

Hell is a bottomless pit.

 

[Beef Invictus]

If the Flyers were a movie they'd be "Manos: Hands of Fate."

 

[AndHeMissedTheNet]

 

[Jray42]

 

[SnS]

I’m done.