Honour Over Glory
Blomqvist for Vezina + ROTY
- Jan 30, 2012
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The moment he drastically changed the usage of the bottom 6 after the cups, I knew his idea of a system that will keep the Pens a contender was going to fail.
It's beyond old school and demented really. Throwing some truly awful usage to the 3rd and 4th lines and asking them to succeed is like chopping off a blokes arms and asking him to show you how many push ups he can do.
Sheahan was weird enough to succeed in that usage and then he wanted someone else who has never done that kind of usage and he tanked so Sullivan then tanks Sheahan even more with harder usage than his bounce back year. Rinse and repeat for the next 6 seasons, Blueger was one that really truly pissed me off and I am sure I said enough about it over the years when it was happening. Seeing him now in Vancouver, he's bounced back from the bs by Sully.
Then his issues with Cole which was petty as shit and forcing the trade of Cole and Reaves which hurt the Pens a ton with what they had to give up and how it threw them off further. He then did it again with Kessel who was great with Sid but Phil And Geno knew they weren't a fit and seemed like they told Sully who kept doing it anyway and then he also started to cut Geno's minutes which pissed him off further and he had every right to be pissed. Then all the other shit we've gone over about this clown if a coach ad nauseum.
But the rah rah shit, I didn't like it with Disco and like who gives a f***, who were they trying to impress? Dan was nice enough, they never needed that shit, but boy did they start criticizing the shit out of him the last 2yrs. It got to be too much with that narrative of look how funny Dan is, look at how Dan loves and respects the military, Dan reads and writes Books! Lol. Now with the Lord of complete sentences, Mike Sullivan, they truly went harder into it. Where it seems like no one is allowed to question him at all in the local media, broadcast or anything and they immediately push some great thing Sully said or did or has done every week without any reason to do it other than to brainwash you to think this team is failing this brilliant and amazing coach that deserves better, lol.
It's sad to know Torts will probably get fired during this season (We won't get to see that with Sullivan) or the end of it depending on how Briere sees it does Torts f***ing up Michkov for just this season worth the lottery changes? Or could the damage be worse by not firing him during the season because Cutter now seems all the wiser for wanting out because of shit like this with Torts.
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