{"id":478335,"date":"2024-02-15T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478335"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:58:17","slug":"columbus-dismisses-general-manager-kekalainen","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/columbus-dismisses-general-manager-kekalainen\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus dismisses general manager Kekalainen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Blue Jackets have dismissed Jarmo Kekalainen, the longest-tenured GM in the organization\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Jarmo (57) was appointed in February 2013 by Columbus and became the 1<sup>st<\/sup> European-born GM in the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jarmo Kekalainen has been relieved of his duties as general manager.<\/p>\n<p>John Davidson, along with the team\u2019s hockey operations management team, will assume general manager\u2019s duties while the club goes through the process of hiring a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ana2o90Adj\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ana2o90Adj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tqZ9wTKRMU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tqZ9wTKRMU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Columbus Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJacketsNHL\/status\/1758136617725022598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The team has the worst record in the East Conference with a .404-point percentage in 52 matches (16-26-10). The Blue Jackets made the postseason in 2019-20. Under Jarmo, the franchise qualified for the playoffs 5 times but only triumphed in a single postseason matchup &#8211; their shocking 2019 1st round upset of 1st place against the Bolts in a sweep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is 1 of the toughest days I have had in my career as Kekalainen is a friend, someone I respect deeply, and someone who has contributed enormously during his time in Columbus for the team to get better,&#8221; shared John Davidson, the Blue Jackets president of hockey operations and alternate governor. &#8220;While the future of our organization is vivid, we didn\u2019t start the season the way we wanted, and now is the time for a different perspective as we move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Blue Jackets have dismissed Jarmo Kekalainen, the longest-tenured GM in the organization\u2019s history. Jarmo (57) was appointed in February 2013 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478336,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16870,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17874,22668,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Blue Jackets fired the GM as they stand worst in the East.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478353,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478335\/revisions\/478353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478335"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478335"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}