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Boy, that Terry Simpson was an awful Flyers coach. His failure in the 93-94 season is still hampering the team to this day!
It would be nice if you would add to the conversation instead of just trolling but you are what you are I guess.
Still Terry became an important part of Flyers history lest we forget, who, like Torts, was hired by clueless executives to return the Flyers to glory after missing the playoffs. Jay Snider was in charge while Russ Farwell was GM and Terry brought them all down. A real murderers row of executives. Terry’s failure in his lone year as coach caused Ed Snider to take back the team presidency from Jay and Russ’s final act before he himself was fired was to fire Terry.
In a circle of life moment, Russ’s firing brought back Clarke to the Flyers who as senior advisor was instrumental to get Torts hired.
There might be a lesson there but seriously the coach/co-GM who was just let go only a few months ago is extremely relevant to the current players and make up of the current front office.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. Are you in favor of the Flyers repeating their past mistakes?
Lest we forget, Torts was only one head of the hydra. It was a triumvirate. The remaining 2 heads would prefer you ignore the bloody stump.
Boy, that Terry Simpson was an awful Flyers coach. His failure in the 93-94 season is still hampering the team to this day!
Torts, Torts, Torts! Bad Torts is gone, never to return, unless the Flyers decide to retire his sweat suit. You all would have been far better off if you had stopped following the Flyers, like me, when he was first hired. Then you wouldn’t be suffering from Post Traumatic Torts Syndrome.
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. Are you in favor of the Flyers repeating their past mistakes?
Lest we forget, Torts was only one head of the hydra. It was a triumvirate. The remaining 2 heads would prefer you ignore the bloody stump.
Torts, Torts, Torts! Bad Torts is gone, never to return, unless the Flyers decide to retire his sweat suit. You all would have been far better off if you had stopped following the Flyers, like me, when he was first hired. Then you wouldn’t be suffering from Post Traumatic Torts Syndrome.
were danny boy and “jones” forced to fire torts? if so by whom I wonder. clearly, he had to go though danny has said numerous times he wanted him back.
hiring torts set this franchise back many years. either danny didn’t have the balls to fire him when he was named GM to go in his own direction or he wasn’t allowed. Either way it is terrible outcome.
the gold standard. one of the best run organizations in sports. one of the winningest franchises in the NHL. dedicated ownership who wants to win. a management team who is on the right path to contention. a new, successful, era of orange.
also knowing hockey doesn’t equate to one being successful at running a team or to be successful as a coach.
Was not last year the most embarrassing season of Flyers hockey in the most embarrassingly way possible? Especially for a team who thought they could make the playoffs?
The Flyers intentionally playing shorthanded on defense at the beginning of last year. Refusing to call up players. Who does that besides the flyers?
The embarrassing Jett fiasco at the beginning of the season where he ended up in the press box for 2 weeks to save face so they could say they gave him the 10 game trial. He wasn’t ready and he didn’t play well enough in training camp to make the Flyers give him the 10 games.
The record # of line changes in the first month of the season that became an internet meme. How was that competent coaching?
We also now find out that Torts pretty much left the training camp coaching to his assistants (that was just in a preseason article).
The big club had very little input/interaction with the Phantoms at Torts direction.and ending up with ..
York getting suspended by the team because Torts crossed the line. If Torts crossed the line, why was the player suspended? Amateur hour by a front office trying to figure out how to protect themselves.
Still not enough to get Torts fired so Torts had to take it up a notch.https://x.com/scottcwheeler/status/1904719643173937221
Tortorella: “This falls on me. I’m not really interested in learning how to coach in this type of season, where we’re at right now.”
“I really hope that this is the bottom,” Briere said. “This is rock bottom for us today, and this is the turnaround.”
Only after that were DB and Jonesy forced to act to save themselves. Up to that point they were partners in crime.
They would prefer we get collective amnesia regarding how the new era of orange has been going. Actually reaching lows lower than Fletcher 2 years after he was fired.
I would love for someone to explain to me how the Flyers weren’t a house on fire last year with 2 out of the 3 arsonists still in charge going forward? or we can pretend it was all a dream sequence and never talk of it again.
As a player Jonsey is portrayed as a guy with no skill or talent and a questionable work ethic, yet he was a solid NHL role player. As a broadcaster he’s portrayed as a clown who makes fart jokes, yet he was the top color guy in broadcasting. Now he’s the dopey broadcaster who lucked into a meaningless figurehead role…
Anyway, having never met the man, just my opinion from a birds eye view.
I wish you would have started your ignorant tirade with this statement so I could have disregarded your opinion sooner.
You know absolutely nothing.
Please stop the ad hominem attacks. They add nothing to the conversation and just drives people away from a site that is trying to grow. User engagement, not user beratement. Otherwise there is reddit where you will be rewarded.
To recap:
A Flyers promotional video was reposted and discussed.
Bill Meltzer posted that Jones is smarter than he appears in the video because the flyers need to pander to a certain segment of fans. He knows this because he knows Jones.
My take is that if you don’t want people to think you are a fool, don’t willingly let a big corp portray you as a fool. Otherwise, count your money and let people think you are in idiot.What did you think of the video? Did you agree with the original take of the video? What do you think of Jones/Flyers and why?
the gold standard. one of the best run organizations in sports. one of the winningest franchises in the NHL. dedicated ownership who wants to win. a management team who is on the right path to contention. a new, successful, era of orange.
also knowing hockey doesn’t equate to one being successful at running a team or to be successful as a coach.
Anyway, having never met the man, just my opinion from a birds eye view.
I wish you would have started your ignorant tirade with this statement so I could have disregarded your opinion sooner.
You know absolutely nothing.
Please stop the ad hominem attacks. They add nothing to the conversation and just drives people away from a site that is trying to grow. User engagement, not user beratement. Otherwise there is reddit where you will be rewarded.
To recap:
A Flyers promotional video was reposted and discussed.
Bill Meltzer posted that Jones is smarter than he appears in the video because the flyers need to pander to a certain segment of fans. He knows this because he knows Jones.
My take is that if you don’t want people to think you are a fool, don’t willingly let a big corp portray you as a fool. Otherwise, count your money and let people think you are in idiot.What did you think of the video? Did you agree with the original take of the video? What do you think of Jones/Flyers and why?
