Flyers moving on from Mike Yeo

[Juicy Pop]

Weekes: If I post popular assumptions in fun and weird places, people might think that I'm interesting and cool.

 

[Lindberg]

Is it just me or could Kevin Weekes use a selfie stick when he's delivering breaking news? It's just odd to see someone's face always up close.

 

[M2Beezy]

Have I got the confidence inspiring replacement lined up for you guys!

 

[JRichard]

He definitely deserves to go.

That said, it's about time they move on from Holmgren, Fletcher, and Clarke. Every coaching, signing, and whatever else decision seems to blow up in their faces.

Can't think of a current team in a worse position going forward.

Last sentence is over the top.

 

[Amorgus]

Last sentence is over the top.

Nope, the franchise is doomed until Clarke is removed and that'll only be from his cold dead hands.

 

[JasonDemersWasOkay]

Tocchet incoming

 

[Rich Nixon]

Last sentence is over the top.

It really isn't. It's a franchise with no high-end prospects, little current roster talent, no identity, an increasingly-disillusioned fanbase that has stopped coming to games, no clear plan, a lot of money tied up in bad or injury-prone players, and old-boys-club leadership that has refused to relinquish power or recognize how dire they've made the situation. They're really f***ed.

 

[DaveG]

It really isn't. It's a franchise with no high-end prospects, little current roster talent, no identity, an increasingly-disillusioned fanbase that has stopped coming to games, no clear plan, a lot of money tied up in bad or injury-prone players, and old-boys-club leadership that has refused to relinquish power or recognize how dire they've made the situation. They're really f***ed.

It's reminding me a lot of the Canes in the Karmanos & Rutherford years in a lot of ways minus being completely broke. Completely baffling moves giving draft capital away like drunken frat boys on spring break. No identity as a team. Staff decisions that make no sense at all. Just seemingly a place for old and former players to hang out with their buddies. It wasn't until Francis took over as GM bringing in Waddell and Tulsky to key roles that things started to turn around, and that was after burning through futile attempts to stay relevant instead of doing a rebuild that should have started 4 years before it actually did. Until the Flyers decide to do similar they're seemingly stuck, especially in this f***ing division.

 

[Rich Nixon]

It's reminding me a lot of the Canes in the Karmanos & Rutherford years in a lot of ways minus being completely broke. Completely baffling moves giving draft capital away like drunken frat boys on spring break. No identity as a team. Staff decisions that make no sense at all. Just seemingly a place for old and former players to hang out with their buddies. It wasn't until Francis took over as GM bringing in Waddell and Tulsky to key roles that things started to turn around, and that was after burning through futile attempts to stay relevant instead of doing a rebuild that should have started 4 years before it actually did. Until the Flyers decide to do similar they're seemingly stuck, especially in this f***ing division.

That's the current vibe here, particularly on the roster. Fletcher and Vigneault came in and coveted, of all people, Kevin Hayes. They got him at a hefty pricetag. They then flipped Voracek for one of his buddies (Atkinson) and grabbed his best friend Yandle for no reason. Brassard was an old AV pet too. Nate Thompson--old and useless? but a locker room guy.

Just started adding a bunch of Hayes' friends/AV's preferred bodies and dumping random roster players to make room. Gostisbehere was irrelevant because they didn't know how to use him and they could get a Yandle! So they unload him + a 2nd rounder. No room for NAK because they have all this great forward depth in, uh, Thompson and Brassard, so he gets waived--and promptly finds a home on the best team in the West. Ristolainen extended. Giroux traded for beans.

The Ghost and NAK situations are really great microcosms of where they're at in terms of development and talent evaluation. Squandered one guy completely. Decided the other guy just wasn't good enough for their team (which finished in the bottom 5) while a team that finished top-2 has made perfectly good use of him.

Meanwhile players who should be good have seen their development stop in its tracks. Provorov has regressed to his rookie season. Konecny's goal scoring has evaporated (though he's getting his assists). Farabee is a different player on any given night. Meanwhile Fletcher gets up in press conferences and rambles off a list of guys who project to be third liners at best and touts them as the future.

Their leadership can't identify and develop NHL talent. That's a really bad sign, given how little of it they already have.

 

[JoeSakic13]

I admittedly don’t know much about the Flyers, but I know that I’m super glad for Philly fans this guy is gone.

Regardless of where you land on the Yandle situation, it’s hard to argue that not having Giroux out for an EN situation on his final Philly game was a sign of a coach who doesn’t have a bond with his team.

 

[mr figgles]

How does Mike Yeo keep getting work?

He kind of accidented into this job. He was an assistant already, with head coaching experience, and he wasn’t Therrien.

 

[3074326]

I was happy when he became coach in Philly, and am sad now that it is ending.

Maybe they'll hire Mike Johnston.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

I was happy when he became coach in Philly, and am sad now that it is ending.

Maybe they'll hire Mike Johnston.

Probably hire Ducharme.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Yeo should never ever be allowed to coach in the NHL again. He put St. Louis in a hole when that team was clearly good enough to win the cup that season. I think the Flyers had potential to flirt with a playoff spot, but that went to the dumpster fast.

I have a weird feeling Philly might actually hire Rick Tocchet or Paul Maurice, if not probably a guy like Kevin Dineen.

 

[Dulind]

Never really paid attention to Philly's internal problems until that Risto trade and now, after paying closer attention to this past season, I understand.

The NHL is a better place when the Flyers are a menace in both the penalty box and box score.

I miss those Legion of Doom days.

 

[cudi]

ay Yeo, lets go.

Never shoulda been made HC in the first place. Terrible NHL HC

 

[uncleben]

Yeo fired as coach of Flyers, was 17-36-7 after replacing Vigneault | NHL.com

Philadelphia missed playoffs for second straight season

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PHI not necessarily done with Yeo. Just looking for a different HC.
Will offer Yeo a place elsewhere in the orginzation (AC again, scouting, development, front office), if he wants it, but will also let him pursue positions elsewhere.

 

[rt]

Whelp, Philly fans are not gonna like Rick Tocchet as head coach, either. Going to be some dark days before it gets brighter for the Flyers, I'm afraid.

 

[Maple Leaf]

the end of an era

 

[wayninja]

The leagues doorknob

 

[Vektor]

I think the whole league should move on from putting Yeo into any important role.

 

[North Cole]

This guy is a bum so good riddance, but is the team really due to turn around under a new coach? They have some real bad eggs in management that seem to work harder to cover each other's respective smells, than they do icing a competitive team. I feel like the coach is just window dressing for the abysmal moves they made.