Miscellaneous NHL Discussion XCIX: We're Gonna Party Like It's 99

[bennysflyers16]

Imagine if Biz is the guy to rid us of Torts !!!

 

[Magua]

If a Flyers prospect raised concerns about Tortorella, they’d trade the prospect.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Can someone respond to his tweet with the players poll showing Torts as more hated than Babcock?

 

[Taijuan Fedotov]

NHL needs a purge, a big one.

 

[GKJ]

An astounding display of institutional hubris. Jarmo and Davidson should be fired, too.

 

[Kelmitchell2]

Imagine if Biz is the guy to rid us of Torts !!!

We'd need a statue in his image

 

[ajgoal]

If a Flyers prospect raised concerns about Tortorella, they’d trade the prospect.

Nah. They'd dump him in the ECHL and when they can't get anything for him they'll say there's no market and then not qualify him.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Jones and Torts vs the Chicklets crew would be glorious watching them get crushed.

 

[Danko]

STOP. HIRING. THE.SAME.COACHES.ALL.THE.TIME

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Guys like Friedman, Dreger, etc. should be embarrassed for carrying water for Columbus & the NHL in the early going of this whole ordeal by trying to downplay it.

Shit like that is why nothing really ever changes & the league keeps recycling these old coaches.

 

[Danko]

An astounding display of institutional hubris. Jarmo and Davidson should be fired, too.

Jarmo was already walking on thin ice...got to assume if they get off to a slow start that he's gone.

 

[GKJ]

Jarmo was already walking on thin ice...got to assume if they get off to a slow start that he's gone.

My read is that he is out of time. This had to go right. And he didn’t even make it to the season.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

You think Flyers wait till next year to hire him ?

they prolly dont wait 1 day.. Torts will be moved up ladder to make room for him

#datkesttimeline

 

[DancingPanther]

After Babcock was fired by the Maple Leafs, a report surfaced that he asked a player to share his ranking of teammates from hardest- to least-hardest working and then shared that with the rest of the group.

Lol

Mike Babcock resigns as Blue Jackets coach amid investigation involving players' photos

Mike Babcock has resigned as coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets after just two months on the job following revelations that he asked players to show him photos on their phones.

apnews.com

Also apparently Boone Jenner denied the report, so trade his ass too while you're at it

Also also wouldn't it be amazing if this guy gets sued for hazing? Lol

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Babcock to join Torts staff E3

 

[DancingPanther]

If a Flyers prospect raised concerns about Tortorella, they’d trade the prospect.

This is 100% the case. You can't put the face of the franchise on blast like that

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

It’s a bad look for Jenner but I’d imagine he was pressured by the organization to be a team guy & put out that statement. It was around the same time Friedman & the other mainstream guys started turning the tide of public opinion against the accusation.

He very well may not have been personally offended by it but I also can’t imagine he did what he did out of sake for some personal relationship with Babcock who he’s probably only known like that for a few months now.

Honestly it’s a pretty coward move by Jarmo & Davidson to have Jenner be the only one to put his name out there in defense of Babcock. It should have been those two since they’re the ones who actually made the hire.

 

[wankstifier]

What makes the Flyers different from the BJs? Would they be able to shut down an investigation?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

What makes the Flyers different from the BJs? Would they be able to shut down an investigation?

They’d 100% try to stonewall it, whether it would ultimately succeed in the end probably isn’t likely.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Imagine if Biz is the guy to rid us of Torts !!!

I mean they had a direct line to Hayes last year and they said as much that's he's a douche, but I guess they didn't have the dirt like they did with Babcock.

STOP. HIRING. THE.SAME.COACHES.ALL.THE.TIME

Even when the flags are bright red, this league still finds a way to cycle through the same 40 coaches at a given time.

 

[Beef Invictus]

We know if the Flyers tanked, and had the worst record, they'd have ended up with the 3rd pick in the draft and still would have drafted Michkov.

Bedard is going to be very good, but shining in a prospects game (which plays to his strengths b/c lack of defensive structure) really doesn't tell me anything - he's supposed to dominate games like that.

We do not know that.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Guys like Friedman, Dreger, etc. should be embarrassed for carrying water for Columbus & the NHL in the early going of this whole ordeal by trying to downplay it.

Shit like that is why nothing really ever changes & the league keeps recycling these old coaches.

This is a huge win for them common fan

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I haven’t listened to it in a while but Babcock was really the only guy that they took a flamethrower to on that podcast & that was pretty much done so by Commodore. It essentially became a bit on their podcast whenever he’d be on.

They’ve had players on who’ve called out coaches or have implied they don’t like them but none of them have carried a grudge to anywhere close to where Commodore has to Babcock. A lot of the other guys really aren’t as invested to carry it on whether it’s because it’s been so long &/or they’re still involved in hockey somehow.

Commodore is really the only hockey player who’s seemingly made it his absolute life mission to continually go after a coach he felt wronged him & others.

 

[Curufinwe]

Guys like Friedman, Dreger, etc. should be embarrassed for carrying water for Columbus & the NHL in the early going of this whole ordeal by trying to downplay it.

Shit like that is why nothing really ever changes & the league keeps recycling these old coaches.

Was Friedman doing that? On his podcast he seemed open to the idea that this thing would have legs.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Was Friedman doing that? On his podcast he seemed open to the idea that this thing would have legs.

On Twitter at least after Columbus released their statement a lot of those guys were acting on there as if that’s the end of it & it was some big mistunderstanding.