Canes are not a fair comparison at all. They were not a new franchise and were lucky enough to have legacy players like Ron Francis who immediately raise the profile. Jackets had to start from scratch and create their own legacy. And many alumni have stuck around the area, some work for the team. And the idea of players not wanting to stick around is somewhere between myth and lie at this point. The prominent guys who left, did so for very specific reasons. Bob wanted a ludicrous salary. Pierre Luc Dubois has never known what he wants, as LA is finding out now. Panarin wanted to go to NYC no matter what (Jarmo offered him huge money to stay). And for the rest, good riddance: Josh Anderson is a bust, Duchene never really earned his pay in Nashville, and Dzingel's career dried up. And 2 good players that absolutely wanted to stay were Cam Atkinson and Oliver Bjorkstrand, but Jarmo traded them. As far as this year goes, no one wants to lose and that's all the Jackets do. Players will obviously want out if management and coaching is a train wreck. That's true of anywhere. Booting Jarmo is a step in the right direction.
@@TheKingOfPuppets747 20 years of failure is a lot of time to fail if we’re being honest. Smaller market teams have done well before. Honestly embracing excuses
@@spearson103 That is because your question is stupid and that you don’t know what you are writing about when you say that he didn’t get anything right. He did trade some really good players to the team and got some good first round picks. He did not most of the time overpay for players like Toronto always do.
If you’ve followed the Jackets since the beginning you know pretty much everything they said here about having pieces is bullshit. Maybe 3 or 4 guys but no more than that. A huge lack of culture and identity makes the franchise a joke. Players seem to come to Columbus to collect a paycheck. It’ll be 5-6 years before they have a chance to do anything resembling success. Great fans but stupid fans. A sellout every game gives the entire franchise no sense of urgency to win let alone play hard. Where’s player accountability? There can’t be any. Same guys game after game make the same stupid mistakes.
As Finn its good to see finnish people in NHL in managemend also but Kekäläinen was just shit for long time. Did nothing, acchievend nothing, bad contracts, bad trades and this season could have been better with Babcock but ofcource since everyone is snowflake these days it didnt happen beucase reasons and shiit.
It’s weird the players have to do a press conference like this for the firing of a GM.
The idea that John Davidson has the power to fire anybody is astounding to me.
I can't believe Pascal Vincent, the guy who has the most responsibility for the on-ice product, still has a job.
Never seen the players have to apologize for getting the GM fired 😂
Right!? Columbus still living in the joke world of Doug MacLean
JD is part of the problem as well.
Canes are not a fair comparison at all. They were not a new franchise and were lucky enough to have legacy players like Ron Francis who immediately raise the profile. Jackets had to start from scratch and create their own legacy. And many alumni have stuck around the area, some work for the team.
And the idea of players not wanting to stick around is somewhere between myth and lie at this point. The prominent guys who left, did so for very specific reasons. Bob wanted a ludicrous salary. Pierre Luc Dubois has never known what he wants, as LA is finding out now. Panarin wanted to go to NYC no matter what (Jarmo offered him huge money to stay). And for the rest, good riddance: Josh Anderson is a bust, Duchene never really earned his pay in Nashville, and Dzingel's career dried up. And 2 good players that absolutely wanted to stay were Cam Atkinson and Oliver Bjorkstrand, but Jarmo traded them. As far as this year goes, no one wants to lose and that's all the Jackets do. Players will obviously want out if management and coaching is a train wreck. That's true of anywhere. Booting Jarmo is a step in the right direction.
Why is it unfortunate? How much more could he have failed?
I still think it was tough to keep players in the state and city for non hockey reasons but yea something’s gotta give
He was a very good GM for a smaller market hockey city.
@@TheKingOfPuppets747 You didn't answer my question. But keep talking, I find it amusing
@@TheKingOfPuppets747 20 years of failure is a lot of time to fail if we’re being honest. Smaller market teams have done well before. Honestly embracing excuses
@@spearson103 That is because your question is stupid and that you don’t know what you are writing about when you say that he didn’t get anything right. He did trade some really good players to the team and got some good first round picks. He did not most of the time overpay for players like Toronto always do.
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If you’ve followed the Jackets since the beginning you know pretty much everything they said here about having pieces is bullshit. Maybe 3 or 4 guys but no more than that. A huge lack of culture and identity makes the franchise a joke. Players seem to come to Columbus to collect a paycheck. It’ll be 5-6 years before they have a chance to do anything resembling success.
Great fans but stupid fans. A sellout every game gives the entire franchise no sense of urgency to win let alone play hard. Where’s player accountability? There can’t be any. Same guys game after game make the same stupid mistakes.
As Finn its good to see finnish people in NHL in managemend also but Kekäläinen was just shit for long time. Did nothing, acchievend nothing, bad contracts, bad trades and this season could have been better with Babcock but ofcource since everyone is snowflake these days it didnt happen beucase reasons and shiit.
Maybe the best active GM is free now.
davidson is what you need to get out of there