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AlexBrovechkin8 said:
I’d rather it be Eddie O because Keith Jones is pretty good on TV.
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Oldshit clearly wants to coach again because he can't get through a broadcast without trying to make adjustments for his favoring PA teams, maybe thinking their front office are listening and piping his words of wisdom down to the bench.

Jones can at least disguise his homerism 90% of the time.
 
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Jones is actually pretty good as an in-studio analyst but I’m skeptical it’ll translate to his new role.

It’s wild to me that these entities who make millions and millions of dollars default to “eh he used to play for us” as a reason to hire guys in such important positions.
 
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twabby said:
Jones is actually pretty good as an in-studio analyst but I’m skeptical it’ll translate to his new role.

It’s wild to me that these entities who make millions and millions of dollars default to “eh he used to play for us” as a reason to hire guys in such important positions.
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I leaned on our resident Washington Football/Flyers fan and it sounds like his role is to sit there, look pretty, and not really get in the way. It's a paycheck job by the sound of it.

Beef Invictus said:
They're fingerpainting with poopy.

If the Flyers organization were a person, they'd be that person who goes to the ER to get a cheese grater out of their butt.

If they were a movie, they'd be Manos: Hands of Fate.

They would order mayo on a pastrami sandwich.

Their favorite TV show is "Chrisley Knows Best."

But for real, this is currently how their management structure is built. It is rumored Jones will have no authority and is just a propagandist, and that Tortorella shares in roster power with Briere. So...this:

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I don't know how you get your brain so polished, smooth, and unwrinkled to make such an arrangement possible. That's as garbled as having foreskins on your teeth. It should be forbidden.
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I don't know why I presented that like it was some grueling interview, now to Keith with the weather.
 
CapitalsCupReality said:
Love Jonesie, but I find this to be a comical hire. This is a Jeff Saturday move in the NHL.

www.espn.com

Flyers tab TV analyst Jones as team president

The Flyers have named longtime television analyst Keith Jones their team president of hockey operations and removed the interim tag from general manager Danny Briere's title.
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What does the president of hockey operations do since they are not the GM?
 
usiel said:
What does the president of hockey operations do since they are not the GM?
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Well it's the Flyers, so I imagine there are a lot of big levers and pulleys in a steam room somewhere that need attention. He might also turn the crank that starts their zamboni and kick the wooden chocks out of the way.
 
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