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

[BillDineen]

Knowing they need high end skill and knowing torts' opinions on skill (see zegras), they not only hired him, but invented a new structure in which he has more power than any other coach in the league. It is obvious this is going to blow up in their face

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Knowing they need high end skill and knowing torts' opinions on skill (see zegras), they not only hired him, but invented a new structure in which he has more power than any other coach in the league. It is obvious this is going to blow up in their face

Wasn't Clarke like a assistant coach and player in the 80's?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

The Musher??? what is this from?

The Wall video from Pink Floyd

 

[Starat327]

Another braindead c*** whose Jones defense is “But he’s a nice guy who has met lots of people who work in hockey”.

The hockey community is truly the worst in sports.

Keith Jones "knows so much about hockey" that he thinks Risto is a good hockey player. Thats all you need to know.

 

[usahockey22flyers]

I don’t think anyone is saying that Briere will definitely be a poor GM. The complaints are about the process, the reshuffling of deck chairs. No one wants Briere to fail. I’m sure most here have fond memories of that 2010 HBL line that caught fire and that kneeling Briere up punch as a celebration. I am tentatively optimistic about DB. Anyone can knock a team down to start a rebuild. The problem is the puppet masters are still lurking in the shadows

Same with Keith. It’s just awful optics and an awful process

 

[BiggE]

Woke up, and saw that this is reality. Keith Jones is in charge of an NHL team’s hockey operation.

 

[Embiid]

Briere doing his best Liar Liar poster impression.

All fluff perception management.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Wait, have we checked to see if Keith Jones has a connection to Bob Clarke yet?

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

To all those that are done with this franchise. Who's your new team?

 

[Starat327]

To all those that are done with this franchise. Who's your new team?

Devils if you want to stay local and watch a fun, exciting team.

Canes if you want to watch a team that always does the right thing.

LA if you want a fun team but feel dirty about staying in conference.

 

[Striiker]

Keith Jones "knows so much about hockey" that he thinks Risto is a good hockey player. Thats all you need to know.

Risto, Hagg, Deslauriers, MacEwen… notice a pattern?

And who did he bitch about the most? Ghost, Sanheim, Frost.

This is the piece of shit running the franchise. I’m just glad I found a real sport/team to care about because the Flyers died the day Fletcher was hired. They’re not being resurrected any time soon. The only way that could happen would be if Briere is secretly a legit hockey mind who ignores all the dinosaur assholes around him, which is about a 0.1% chance.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Devils if you want to stay local and watch a fun, exciting team.

Canes if you want to watch a team that always does the right thing.

LA if you want a fun team but feel dirty about staying in conference.

Ew.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Wait, have we checked to see if Keith Jones has a connection to Bob Clarke yet?

You're not gonna believe this

 

[Beef Invictus]

Risto, Hagg, Deslauriers, MacEwen… notice a pattern?

And who did he bitch about the most? Ghost, Sanheim, Frost.

This is the piece of shit running the franchise. I’m just glad I found a real sport/team to care about because the Flyers died the day Fletcher was hired. They’re not being resurrected any time soon. The only way that could happen would be if Briere is secretly a legit hockey mind who ignores all the dinosaur assholes around him, which is about a 0.1% chance.

They only ever hire people who think like them.


Tells you everything you need to know about Briere.

 

[WIP CALLER]

Devils if you want to stay local and watch a fun, exciting team.

Canes if you want to watch a team that always does the right thing.

LA if you want a fun team but feel dirty about staying in conference.

I watched the Devils more than the Flyers this year. What a fun, fast, and skilled young team. Basically the anti-Flyers. Once they get a goalie, they're going to be cup contenders for a decade.

 

[Lindberg]

Oh it's not appealing or right to hire your coach first, who is forced upon your gm who you hire next, who is forced upon your president that you hire last?

Backwards ass bullshit. These people are proof that being rich means nothing, just luck and kissing the right asses

I'm now on my "summer of george" unemployment for more or less telling my management they didn't have a single clue what they were doing in regards to technology.

Collecting 830 a week (which isn't great) to go to the beach/work on my side hustle/etc isn't too bad though.

 

[ponder719]

To all those that are done with this franchise. Who's your new team?

I'm far too stubborn to be done with this dumpster fire, but I am attempting to live vicariously through the Senators (b/c G) and Sharks (family connections to San Jose.)

 

[Striiker]

Sub-human intelligence.

 

[WIP CALLER]

Sub-human intelligence.

To be fair, he just witnessed that kissing the franchise's ass for 20 years can get you the PoHo position. He's just lining himself up to replace Jonesy one day.

 

[ponder719]

To be fair, he just witnessed that kissing the franchise's ass for 20 years can get you the PoHo position. He's just lining himself up to replace Jonesy one day.

He's missing the first, most essential qualification. It'll never work.

 

[Starat327]

Ew.

I was gonna say thr Avs but it felt too bandwagony.

 

[Mkoll]

To all those that are done with this franchise. Who's your new team?

NHL in general has angered me with their silence policies on social issues.
So, none.

Although, I am moving to Canada in July to a city with a team in the Quebec Major Junior hockey league, maybe that one would be better.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Let's pretend for a second that they plan on going into an organizational rebuild and they're going to clean out the scouting department, which is long overdue. Whose going to be helping with that? Not Jones. Hanrahan is the CBA guy. It'll be Flahr and Briere.

That would mean the dude who almost exclusively gibbers on about size and shooting while reviling just about everything else (including playing to maintain possession) as "cute" and a thing to be eradicated will be filling the scouting department with people just like him.

What a nightmare. I said we might be (being generous) five years away from being ten years away, but it's more likely we are ten years away from a path that may put us five years away from being ten years away.

Luckily there's a very small chance any of those guys will be touched, for whatever the hell that's worth.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I'm now on my "summer of george" unemployment for more or less telling my management they didn't have a single clue what they were doing in regards to technology.

Collecting 830 a week (which isn't great) to go to the beach/work on my side hustle/etc isn't too bad though.

I'm a big fan of tilting at impregnable windmills over principle, seriously. Nice going.

 

[Striiker]

To all those that are done with this franchise. Who's your new team?

Dortmund