Confirmed with Link: NYR Fire John Davidson and Jeff Gorton

[Hire Sather]

Yeah there no way this is unrealted to yesterday

Honestly though Gorton and JD wanting out because they were scared by that statement.. if that's true I'll miss them but don't let the door hit you on the way out

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

Were they like...telling our players to hurt people? It makes no sense to do this today without it having something to do with Wilson/the Caps game.

Team had the weirdest vibes I've ever seen, I think Black Mondaying them would have been completely acceptable (even if I still would have been surprised), but doing it like this...

 

[mas0764]

The coach should be gone by Saturday too if Dolan really feels they underperformed

Indeed.

We need the story to come out on this right away.

 

[Taluss]

The coach should be gone by Saturday too if Dolan really feels they underperformed

Exactly, I don’t understand why he wouldn’t at least be fired along with the other two

 

[Kravtsov420]

Apparently it was a Dolan thing to do the press release and Gorts and JD didn’t know before it went out. It’s my guess they disagreed and Dolan gave them the status quo.

this magnificent rebuild, going to come down at the hands of a crazy owner.

 

[17futurecap]

Oh God, Mess is going to be president

 

[dshea19]

If he was concerned with underachieving, wouldn't you target the coach and GM? Why the President who has barely been here? This makes zero sense in that context.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

That's ridiculous if true. I think the team underachieved too but the biggest flaw is Quinn. There's no way this is coincidental though, if it were they would have waited till the offseason in less than a week.

 

[mas0764]

Time to raid Carolina's staff.

 

[Edge]

This screams of a temper tantrum at the top.

 

[PDCIslander41]

Don't believe that at all. Might have been the final straw, but they are related.

 

[Savant]

The caps twitter is legit run by a dumb college kid intern and he was complaining on his personal account about people talking shit to him after he made that "I choose violence" post. You can get paid to make HFBoards posts by a professional organization if you play your cards right, it's amazing

He’s probably Ted Leonsis’ nephew or something

 

[mas0764]

Oh God, Mess is going to be president

God no.

 

[Savant]

If ownership feels they underachieved they forgot to fire at least one other person

 

[Atax]

This seems like a really bad, impulsive, decision.

 

[useref15]

This is truly shocking...

 

[Hire Sather]

And since Tom Wilson destroyed our organization.. I don't want to go after a star player anymore

I hope Wilson attacked and hurt for a long long time.

Now we have been permanently hurt by this. I'm f***ing pissed now

 

[Chaels Arms]

If Seravalli is right then good, get them out of here.

 

[Holocene]

Wow. Is it possible DeAngelo makes a return then?

no god pls shits already circus

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

So Tom Wilson just destroyed two of our best players and cleaned out our front office

Wow. This is unbelievable and I can't help but think how happy Caps fans are

Tom Wilson destroyed our organization

We better destroy his face tonight....

 

[frozenrubber]

We've been VERY lucky for years that Dolan didn't pay close attention to the Rangers. This is Knicks-level Dolan, a petulant manchild.

 

[Circus86]

Seems contradictory to the link I just posted...

Edit; nvm I read the previous link wrong. I assumed they were saying that was why the firing happened

Sound weird. Why is DQ still here then?

 

[bb74]

This is absolutely unreal. 3 games to go, a day after having a moron attack your star player and finally call it out, the NHL comes in with back door pressure and the victim is actually punished morally and in the pocket? This is absolutely unreal and marks a very, very dark day on the NHL as a professional league and the NYR ownership who should have told Bettman to FO. Indelible black spot on the league. Now I really hope someone puts Wilson into a walking chair the rest of his career.

 

[Killem Dafoe]

holy f*** what is this?!

 

[Anthony5967]

Apparently Davidson and Gorton didn’t have a problem with what Wilson did and tried to distance themselves from that statement. And in that, good, get out then. You’re an owner and you pay $81.5M to Panarin and watch that happen that night I’d be disgusted too. And an underachieving year to begin with.