Flyers' History: The OFFICIAL Flyers Cronyism Chart

[DancingPanther]

**UPDATED x4**

Lol at putting Nick Schultz in alternating orange and green. Dark horse for ultimate crony

Mad love up to Barry Hanrahan, VP and Assistant GM who was neither a former Flyer nor crony from what I can see. Just got hired and worked up. What a miracle.

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[Captain Dave Poulin]

Lol at putting Nick Schultz in alternating orange and green. Dark horse for ultimate crony

Mad love up to Barry Hanrahan, VP and Assistant GM who was neither a former Flyer nor crony from what I can see. Just got hired and worked up. What a miracle.

Not pictured:
1. Ian Laperriere

• AHL Head Coach
• Former Flyer, signed as player by Paul Holmgren

2. Jason Smith

• AHL Assistant Coach
• Former Flyer, signed as player by Paul Holmgren

Great work. Great post.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Lombardi should connect to Clarke as well, and on that front there's weird adjacency with Jack Ferreira thanks to Lombardi, and also Clarke being his successor. That's a front we should probably be wary of going forward too, as Clarke and Fletcher start running out of cronies to cycle in.

 

[DancingPanther]

Lombardi should connect to Clarke as well.

How so?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Lombardi should connect to Clarke as well.

And Dave Brown connects to Hexy as a teammate.

 

[DancingPanther]

Great work. Great post.

Feel free to post on twitter, with credit of course

 

[Striiker]

Looking for a single competent hockey mind like

 

[DancingPanther]

And Dave Brown connects to Hexy as a teammate.

Noted. I will revise as best I can

 

[DancingPanther]

Lombardi should connect to Clarke as well, and on that front there's weird adjacency with Jack Ferreira thanks to Lombardi, and also Clarke being his successor. That's a front we should probably be wary of going forward too, as Clarke and Fletcher start running out of cronies to cycle in.

Wait what? Did Lombardi and Clarke work together? Idk who Jack Ferreira is

 

[Beef Invictus]

How so?

When Lombardi was fired from SJ Clarke hired him as pro scout for the West. Held the spot for 3 years.

 

[DancingPanther]

When Lombardi was fired from SJ Clarke hired him as pro scout for the West. Held the spot for 3 years.

We in it

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Feel free to post on twitter, with credit of course

Will do - at me when you revise (if you do) and I'll launch that beauty.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Wait what? Did Lombardi and Clarke work together? Idk who Jack Ferreira is

As mentioned above, they did.

Ferreira was the GM of the North Stars. He went to be GM of the Sharks when they expanded into existence, along with Lombardi; Clarke took over the Stars briefly before going to Florida to first inflict Fletcher upon the NHL world, so who knows how much cross-pollination those three had with each other during that transition. Lombardi eventually took over as GM of the Sharks until he was fired and then he worked for Clarke. When LA hired him as GM, he hauled Ferreira with him. We haven't tapped into Lombardi's cronies yet, which will have heavy overlap with Ferreira. Meanwhile, it's worth wondering how much drag on innovation Ferreira's influence in LA has.

This info largely doesn't matter yet.

Yet.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I know @Appleyard can refine this a bit further.

 

[Appleyard]

I know @Appleyard can refine this a bit further.

Aha. If only I had time.

If we put a Bobby Clarke tree in this is gets very interesting...
Fletcher, Hanrahan, Samuelsson... almost all the pro scouts, all the advisors.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Aha. If only I had time.

If we put a Bobby Clarke tree in this is gets very interesting...
Fletcher, Hanrahan, Samuelsson... almost all the pro scouts, all the advisors.

One of his kids is a scout, another is some kind of assistant.

@DancingPanther how ambitious are you feeling in your spite?

 

[DancingPanther]

UPDATED

 

[Beef Invictus]

The thing with Hanrahan is that although he broke in, he's definitely a crony now. Some of the early cap errors he survived when his entire job was "Cap Stuff" is mind-bottling

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

 

[DancingPanther]

The thing with Hanrahan is that although he broke in, he's definitely a crony now. Some of the early cap errors he survived when his entire job was "Cap Stuff" is mind-bottling

I suppose but we can't just call everyone a crony because they've been here a while. In other words, Hanrahan doesn't deserve any crony spite.

I think I can try to add Clarke's son and daughter

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

The thing with Hanrahan is that although he broke in, he's definitely a crony now. Some of the early cap errors he survived when his entire job was "Cap Stuff" is mind-bottling

My entire job is "Cap Stuff."

 

[Beef Invictus]

I suppose but we can't just call everyone a crony because they've been here a while. In other words, Hanrahan doesn't deserve any crony spite.

I think I can try to add Clarke's son and daughter

It's really depressing to dig into. A lot of these people have survived across numerous regimes. There's basically no turnover outside of the GM (who is always a crony insider anyway, so it's not real change) and coaches. And lately, every other coach has some dumbass link too.

 

[Flukeshot]

This is depressingly accurate.

 

[trostol]

FFS..it looks like indeed the only way to get out of all this..is if someone like in their 30's or something..super-rich..from the area and grew up with no concept of the old boys club but loved watching like..Lindros or something offers to buy the team and oust everyone..because this is far too...ingrained in this organization

 

[Appleyard]

Add in the:

Bobby Clarke and Paul Holmgren gave them their first NHL job.
For some real fun aha.