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It took less than two weeks as general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers for Chuck Fletcher to see what he needed to see with coach Dave Hakstol.The Flyers were still making too many mistakes Womens Henrik Zetterberg Jersey , still not playing up to their talent level and it was all too clear the message wasn’t getting across from their fourth-year coach. With the team mired in a four-game losing streak, Fletcher fired Hakstol on Monday and named Scott Gordon as interim replacement.“To my eyes there was a disconnect between what he was preaching and how the players were playing,” Fletcher said. “We need a new voice. We need to have the coaching staff (give) the message to the players and hopefully have the players receive that message and that’s why I decided to make the move.”Not much has improved since the team fired general manager Ron Hextall just after Thanksgiving. The Flyers have lost five of six, 11 of 14 and are in last place in the Eastern Conference. They went 1-3-1 on the road trip Fletcher said he’d use to evaluate Hakstol, the rest of the coaching staff and the team in general.Hakstol is the fifth coach fired this season. Hired by Hextall from the University of North Dakota in 2015, Hakstol took the Flyers to the playoffs twice in his three full seasons, but they lost in six games in the first round each time. The Flyers under Hakstol in 2016-17 became the first team in NHL history to miss the playoffs after having a 10-game winning streak, and last season were also the first to make the playoffs after a 10-game losing streak.The inconsistency ultimately cost Hakstol his job.“He’s a great guy,” winger Jakub Voracek said. “We made the playoffs two of three years. We had ups and downs. He was a new coach, first time coaching in the NHL. You learn obviously over the span of those years. It’s always tough when somebody’s let go.”It was not immediately clear when the Flyers would hire a full-time coach, though Fletcher indicated he expects Gordon to work through the remainder of the season. Three-time Stanley Cup-winning coach Joel Quenneville was fired by Chicago last month, but Fletcher said he has not gotten permission from the Blackhawks to speak with Quenneville and hasn’t talked to him in roughly two years.Gordon is an NHL head coach for the second time after parts of three seasons leading the New York Islanders. He has spent the past three-plus seasons as coach of the American Hockey League’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Philadelphia’s top affiliate.“He’s got some creative ways of thinking (about) the game,” said defenseman Andrew MacDonald, who played for Gordon with the Islanders. “We had a really young team in New York when I was there — transitioning from an older team to a younger team. It was kind of a tough situation for him. He was trying to bring in new ideas with speed and some of his philosophies. I really liked Scott as a coach. He’s a good man Jimmy Howard Jersey , he’s got good systems and I think he’ll do a good job for us.”Hextall’s inability to turn things around was among the reasons he was unexpectedly dismissed Nov. 26. Hakstol at the time got a reprieve while team President Paul Holmgren searched for a GM.Hakstol’s final game was a 5-1 loss at Vancouver on Saturday night. The 50-year-old coach from Warburg, Alberta, said he felt his players battled all the way through the blowout loss. He added it’s “not good enough, obviously, because the end result is what matters.”“It’s been four years and you build relationships,” captain Claude Giroux said Monday. “I think for one guy to kind of pay the price for what’s going on, it’s not fair, but it’s the business side of it.”Philadelphia hasn’t won the Stanley Cup since 1975 and was ready to try to contend after several years of retooling. Hextall signed winger James van Riemsdyk to a $35 million, five-year contract in the offseason but never addressed the goaltending position beyond injury-prone Michal Neuvirth and Brian Elliott.Philadelphia went 134-101-42 under Hakstol, who coached the third-most games in franchise history behind Fred Shero and Mike Keenan — and the most for the Flyers without winning a playoff series.“There’s been a lot of pressure on him certainly even before I was here and he handled himself with dignity, with class, a straight-up guy,” Fletcher said. “I just have a tremendous amount of respect for him.”NOTES: The Flyers recalled top goaltending prospect Carter Hart from the AHL, and he could make his NHL debut Tuesday against Detroit with Gordon behind the bench. … Fletcher said goaltender Brian Elliott would be out at least through Jan. 1 with a lower-body injury. The Buffalo Sabres winning streak is reaching historic proportions.Sam Reinhart scored the clinching goal in a shootout against the Red Wings at Detroit on Saturday night to give the Sabres their ninth win in a row.The Sabres (16-6-2) return home for a game Tuesday night against the San Jose Sharks (12-8-4). A win by the Sabres would give them 10 straight wins, which would match the club record set in 1983-84 and tied when Buffalo won its first 10 games of the 2006-07 season.Article continues below ...“I think during this streak you can look at it and see how many different heroes we’ve had Jonathan Ericsson Jersey ,” Sabres captain Jack Eichel said. “There are guys stepping up in key situations.”Everything was not so good with the Sharks Saturday night when they lost an away game 6-0 to the Vegas Golden Knights.During the second period, San Jose’s Evander Kane received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, a 10-minute penalty for abuse of officials and a game misconduct after arguing a tripping call. Soon after, coach Pete DeBoer was ejected as well.“You’re going to kick a guy out for arguing a call because emotions are high?” DeBoer said. “Have a feel for the game. I didn’t even swear. I just asked them, did that feel good kicking Evander out under these circumstances? That was enough, I guess — I guess he wanted another victim.”After earning shutouts in two straight starts, backup Aaron Dell was given the start against the Golden Knights after stopping 19 shots in a 4-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. Dell allowed six goals in 36 shots Saturday. Martin Jones figures to get the start in Buffalo.“We weren’t good tonight,” DeBoer said. “Two of our last three games were shutouts. We were 4-1-1 on our last homestand. We had a bad night. It happens.”Dell had little protection against Vegas. “I don’t think he could have done much (Saturday),” Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson said. “I don’t think we helped him out a lot.”The game against Vegas started a segment of the schedule in which the Sharks will play 25 of 40 games on the road.The Sabres, meanwhile, had a strong effort from their backup goaltender Linus Ullmark, who made 33 saves in his first start since Nov. 17. He made breakaway saves on Detroit’s Anthony Mantha and Dylan Larkin.“You’ve got Linus stepping in and playing out of his mind, making some huge saves, bailing me out and bailing us out a few times,” said Eichel Womens Justin Abdelkader Jersey , who extended his points streak to six games with an assist Saturday. “You can’t say enough about him. We find a way to get two points again.”Ullmark feels that playing so many close games recently have helped the Sabres keep things in perspective.“For us it’s been a battle all the way to the end,” Ullmark said. “That’s what keeps us down to earth, because we know it’s a very tight league and you can’t just go and glide on some pink clouds up there in the sky and think that you’re going to win every night just because you’ve done it before.”Carter Hutton likely will get the start in goal on Tuesday.Sabres coach Phil Housley praised his team for enduring a tough stretch in the schedule.“I have to give credit to our guys, that’s everybody who’s played in these six games in nine nights,” Housley said. “It has been a grind. The guys continue to find energy and ways to win hockey games.”It probably helps that the Sabres, who have struggled for several seasons, are enjoying their resurgence.“Obviously it’s early, right? We want to keep this thing going and we want to win as many games as we can,” Eichel said. “It’s only November. But just from where we’ve come from and the struggles the last few years and last year, I just think everyone’s really stepped up this year. We’ve committed to putting our best foot forward every day, trying to get better. It’s a great feeling. Obviously, we have a lot to accomplish still.”
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