This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

Okay, don't forget a pair of games this evening starting at 7 o'clock Eastern on

CBC and Sports Net. It is in New Jersey Devils looking to stave off the hand. at and the Seattle Crack in that series now a best two out of three.

Off the ice say the big piece of news is Keith Jones and Daniel Briere.

Keith Jones now the President of Hockey Operations for the Philadelphia Flyers as announced this morning and also not surprisingly Daniel Breyer has the interim tag removed from his general manager business card here for comments on all of it and maybe most importantly what's next for the

Philadelphia Flyers is Charlie O'Connor from the athletic he covers the

Philadelphia Flyers Charlie how are you today?

Hey doing okay Jeff how are you?

Uh, I'm very well. So before I get to Keith Jones here, so this is kind of how I saw the Daniel Breyer thing. I don't know, you think is maybe a conspiracy theory or I'm whacker I'm out there.

Let me know what you think about this one.

So Daniel Breyer is initially hired as Chuck Fletcher is dismissed and the title is Interim General Manager.

And I think we all had the idea that one day

Daniel Breyer was going to be the General Manager

the Philadelphia Flyers, and this was just

Filly's way of getting him there.

But there was that interim tag.

Now, my belief or theory is that they were going to leave that on

until Dan Helfridi was in place and then this way it can be presented as Dan

Helfridi's Daniel Breyer as it also is Dan Helfridi's Keith Jones as opposed to

Dave Scott hires and then Dan Helfordy takes over.

Am I stretching here or do you think that there's some there's some juice in this squeeze?

I think there's some true to that definitely you know I think the wheels are already

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