Wanna blog? Start your own hockey blog with My HockeyBuzz. Register for free today!
 
Forums :: Blog World :: Bill Meltzer: Dave Hakstol Fired, Scott Gordon Named Interim Coach; Hart Recalled
Author Message
Glak18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: "It's pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty psssted".", PA
Joined: 06.26.2007

Dec 17 @ 5:14 PM ET
Never heard of her. Just read her article from 12/16.

Quenneville will be the next coach of the Philadelphia Flyers. Fletcher is active on the phones trying to make trades before the roster freeze.

Let me repeat, nothing has changed. This is still the plan. Quenneville will be the coach of the Flyers before 2019.


We'll see. No interest in following her though.

- Scoob


Female Ek with less dominoes
NC Flyers Fan
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.19.2018

Dec 17 @ 5:15 PM ET
perhaps the person within the Flyers organization that leaked it to Isaac should feel responsible.
- nastyflyergirl


That person must have done it to Hak on purpose.

Glak18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: "It's pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty psssted".", PA
Joined: 06.26.2007

Dec 17 @ 5:15 PM ET
or fired
- Scoob


Have some compassion...the hot dog guy has a family
hereticpride
New Jersey Devils
Location: HEY. Does this pole still work?, NJ
Joined: 01.14.2011

Dec 17 @ 5:17 PM ET
So we're on our 6th goalie of the season and it not even Christmas yet?

Wake me up when the trades start.

Glak18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: "It's pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty psssted".", PA
Joined: 06.26.2007

Dec 17 @ 5:20 PM ET
So we're on our 6th goalie of the season and it not even Christmas yet?

Wake me up when the trades start.

- hereticpride


Didn't we make a cup using this many goalies?

KINGKENZO
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: OMAR COMIN'..Head or Gut?.....Watching regular white people
Joined: 01.10.2008

Dec 17 @ 5:21 PM ET
Didn't we make a cup using this many goalies?


- Glak18

no, but the Knights did last year
Glak18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: "It's pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty psssted".", PA
Joined: 06.26.2007

Dec 17 @ 5:22 PM ET
no, but the Knights did last year
- KINGKENZO


Confirmed
NC Flyers Fan
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.19.2018

Dec 17 @ 5:23 PM ET
“It’s all your fault, 100% is you guys, no excuses! Play better dammit, I command you!”

The post game pressers will be gold

- BiggE


I’m thinking your paraphrasing is off.

NC Flyers Fan
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.19.2018

Dec 17 @ 5:26 PM ET
its not like a vote of confidence means anything anyway. usually the coach is fired anyway after
- nastyflyergirl


Whatever makes them justify it.

NC Flyers Fan
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.19.2018

Dec 17 @ 5:28 PM ET
Someone asked Fletcher in the press conference about the timing of Hart's call up and he said it was strictly because of the health of the current crop of Flyers goaltenders.

I think the move also says that Alex Lyon is not viewed as an NHL goaltender by the Chuckster.

- johndewar


Sad, incorrect on many levels.

johndewar
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey, NJ
Joined: 01.16.2009

Dec 17 @ 5:32 PM ET
Sad, incorrect on many levels.
- NC Flyers Fan


Then why not keep Lyon up with the Flyers?
Glak18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: "It's pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty psssted".", PA
Joined: 06.26.2007

Dec 17 @ 5:33 PM ET
I’m thinking your paraphrasing is off.
- NC Flyers Fan


BiggE
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: SELL THE DAMN TEAM!
Joined: 04.17.2012

Dec 17 @ 5:35 PM ET
I’m thinking your paraphrasing is off.
- NC Flyers Fan

Blame the scotch
AllInForFlyers
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Call Me Sweetcheeks
Joined: 03.18.2013

Dec 17 @ 5:36 PM ET
Other reporters had already said Hak was getting fired, so you don't need to waste time coming up with elaborate what-ifs.
- Feanor


Yeah, those "other reporters" said Quenneville was gonna be the coach, too. Where's he at?

You know what else was elaborate?

Hakstol flying across the country WITH Fletcher -- with reports that he had been fired -- but not only Hakstol saying he was gonna be giving an injury update on Elliott today, but Bill and others saying the Flyers said Hakstol was still the coach and was running practice today and the Flyers stating last night that Hakstol was "still our coach"

Fired, getting fired, whatever word salad makes you feel cool because the coach you hated got fired -- Fletcher shouldn't have let Hakstol speak to the media last night if he was firing him today. This whole scenario was an embarrassment
NC Flyers Fan
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.19.2018

Dec 17 @ 5:36 PM ET
Other reporters had already said Hak was getting fired, so you don't need to waste time coming up with elaborate what-ifs.
- Feanor


You mean...other reporters had wishful thinking about a possible scenario and due to a poor showing in the evaluation period followed by the “leak” and false reports, the possibility became reality.

Glak18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: "It's pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty psssted".", PA
Joined: 06.26.2007

Dec 17 @ 5:36 PM ET
Then why not keep Lyon up with the Flyers?
- johndewar


2 ways to look at it...

1) Maybe you are right

2) Maybe you are wrong





3) This team is in circus mode and, like someone mentioned earlier I believe, calling up Hart is kind of distraction PR move for the game. On the other hand game isn't tonight so Lyon could technically still be called back up.
NC Flyers Fan
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.19.2018

Dec 17 @ 5:42 PM ET
Then why not keep Lyon up with the Flyers?
- johndewar


He was injured before the Buffalo game, then took a punch to the gut of his confidence and followed that by playing behind the Phantoms who couldn’t give him consistent play or goal support. In short, he is not really at his normal level of play.

KINGKENZO
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: OMAR COMIN'..Head or Gut?.....Watching regular white people
Joined: 01.10.2008

Dec 17 @ 5:43 PM ET
"I'm trying to identify what characteristics we need in a head coach to make this team successful and, in all honesty, I'm not sure how long that will take. Until I know what I'm looking for, I can't find it. At this point, everybody's a candidate going forward."

AllInForFlyers
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Call Me Sweetcheeks
Joined: 03.18.2013

Dec 17 @ 5:43 PM ET
More elaborateness:

Fletcher saying that not only has he not spoken to Quenneville in two years, he hasn't even asked the Blackhawks for permission, while Andy Strickland said --correctly, as it turns out -- that Quenneville said that reports of him being hired were incorrect

Right, wrong, whatever. Believe whoever you want, but this was a poop-show
hereticpride
New Jersey Devils
Location: HEY. Does this pole still work?, NJ
Joined: 01.14.2011

Dec 17 @ 5:44 PM ET
More elaborateness:

Fletcher saying that not only has he not spoken to Quenneville in two years, he hasn't even asked the Blackhawks for permission, while Andy Strickland said --correctly, as it turns out -- that Quenneville said that reports of him being hired were incorrect

Right, wrong, whatever. Believe whoever you want, but this was a poop-show

- AllInForFlyers

You know what would fix this. Trades
Just5
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: PA
Joined: 05.22.2008

Dec 17 @ 5:45 PM ET
No matter what you think of Dave Hakstol as a coach, I don't think he's stupid.

He knew he was a lame duck and was twisting in the wind. Pressing for a vote of confidence was smart and for the best for everyone involved. Fletcher did the right thing.

It is patently obvious that the players have tuned Hakstol out.

- johndewar


Soooooooo did he quit then?
AllInForFlyers
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Call Me Sweetcheeks
Joined: 03.18.2013

Dec 17 @ 5:47 PM ET
You know what would fix this. Trades
- hereticpride


If you believe Fletcher from today, he's still evaluating players
BiggE
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: SELL THE DAMN TEAM!
Joined: 04.17.2012

Dec 17 @ 5:50 PM ET
If you believe Fletcher from today, he's still evaluating players
- AllInForFlyers

Let me help him out:

Weise, Lehtera, AMac, all goalies not named Elliott, Stolarz or Hart, Weal and Folin suck

Giroux is really good

The rest are somewhere in between. FFS, how hard was that?
Flyers1218
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: New York, NY
Joined: 06.28.2007

Dec 17 @ 5:51 PM ET
This team is a friggin mess.

I’m not saying they didn’t try for Quenneville, because it takes two to tango, but he needs to be the guys.

I’m sorry that I’m not running around celebrating Scott Gordon being given the chance to be the coach next year. He sucked for the Islanders in his only chance.

Should we go for Jack Capuano too?
AllInForFlyers
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Call Me Sweetcheeks
Joined: 03.18.2013

Dec 17 @ 5:52 PM ET
Let me help him out:

Weise, Lehtera, AMac, all goalies not named Elliott, Stolarz or Hart, Weal and Folin suck

Giroux is really good

The rest are somewhere in between. FFS, how hard was that?

- BiggE


I hear you, man -- he said he wanted to be wary of "small sample sizes"
Page: Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15  Next