{"id":551,"date":"2006-10-22T20:43:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T00:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2006-10-22T20:43:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T00:43:26","slug":"returning-to-sender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/10\/22\/returning-to-sender\/","title":{"rendered":"returned to sender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrmm, I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nhl\/news\/story?id=2634817\" title=\"bye Bobby, good riddance\">some people didn&#8217;t like the memo<\/a>, after all. Seven games into the season the Flyer&#8217;s GM Bobby Clarke was allowed to retire (although after all the effluent that has flowed from his mouth the last decade, I think they should have fired his ass), and Hitchcock was shown the door.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke leaving isn&#8217;t a surprise, but Hitchcock being yanked was a bit of one. In hindsight, I guess it shouldn&#8217;t have been, as he does have a bit of a rep &#8211; similar to Keenan &#8211; of his players tuning him out after a few years. I&#8217;m guessing that Esche wasn&#8217;t the only one who had had enough.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this means it&#8217;s officially a rebuilding year in Philly. Sorry, yeh yeh (for the rebuilding year, I&#8217;m thinking you&#8217;re happy seeing Clarke fade away).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrmm, I guess some people didn&#8217;t like the memo, after all. Seven games into the season the Flyer&#8217;s GM Bobby Clarke was allowed to retire (although after all the effluent that has flowed from his mouth the last decade, I think they should have fired his ass), and Hitchcock was shown the door. Clarke leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,46,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hockey","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}