He appeared in 11 games for the Flyers, starting eight, and posted a. Pickard, meanwhile, was grabbed by the Flyers off of waivers from Toronto just before the season began, when there was uncertainty over the availability of each of the Flyers’ four top NHL goaltending options at the time ( Brian Elliott, Michal Neuvirth, Anthony Stolarz, and Alex Lyon). The Flyers now have 13 healthy forwards on the team. With that general manager gone, Holmgren (somewhat ironically, given the fact the he of course was the one who drafted Goulbourne) send him back down to the Phantoms. That call-up was clearly done in an attempt to bring a jolt of energy to a team that the then-general manager felt needed one.
Goulbourne was called up by the Flyers (for the second time this season) and played in three games.
The #Flyers have loaned left wing Tyrell Goulbourne to the In addition, the club has placed goaltender Calvin Pickard on waivers.- Philadelphia Flyers November 28, 2018 Maybe Hakstol actually just didn’t like Gord Murphy and this was his call. Maybe Holmgren said to Hakstol “we need to make some sort of move behind the bench,” so as to show that changes are coming without completely blowing things up and devolving into absolute chaos, and this was what they settled on (over, among others, penalty kill coach Ian Laperriere).
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Holmgren did state emphatically in Tuesday’s presser that Hakstol’s job status was not the breaking point between him and Hextall, and he said that he’d give his full support to Hak and would help him out however he could. It certainly looks at least a bit like Holmgren is getting rid of the old guard in preparation for what comes next.Īlso of note here is the phrasing in Holmgren’s statement that the Murphy firing was made “in close consultation” with Dave Hakstol, who himself is essentially dangling in the wind until a new general manager comes in and decides his fate. If you want to look for motivations here, both Pryor and Murphy could somewhat reasonably be considered “Hextall guys”, as one of them was Hextall’s top lieutenant and the other was hired by him. He is the first coach to be let go by the Flyers since the removal of Joe Mullen following the 2016-17 season. Murphy, meanwhile, was brought in by Hextall in June 2014, replacing John Paddock and working primarily with the team’s defensemen. The timing of it - two days after the initial Hextall firing, and a day after a press conference in which Holmgren and Scott both talked about the youth and prospect pipeline that the team has - raises at least a few eyebrows, but again, there’s a pretty good chance he wouldn’t have been with the team once the new GM was found anyways.
The fact that Pryor is gone, in light of the Hextall firing as well as the numerous statements by Holmgren and Dave Scott that the team would likely be looking for more of an outside voice in their next GM hiring, is not that much of a surprise. In recent years, he worked closely with Hextall on amateur scouting and the NHL Draft. Pryor was in his 19th season in the organization, working previously as the director of scouting before being promoted to his most recent (and now final) position as AGM and Director of Player Personnel in August 2016. hr81OIgytA- Philadelphia Flyers November 28, 2018 #Flyers President Paul Holmgren has released the following statement regarding Chris Pryor and Gord Murphy.
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