To the surprise of no one.
Might as well give Casey a shot tomorrow. Anyone is better than giving Cholowski 8 minutes.
To the surprise of no one.
Might as well give Casey a shot tomorrow. Anyone is better than giving Cholowski 8 minutes.
To the surprise of no one.
Might as well give Casey a shot tomorrow. Anyone is better than giving Cholowski 8 minutes.
Couldn't fire Lindy after that season, I fully acknowledged that at the time. But said he should be on a short leash if the wheels fell off early the following season because the warning signs were there imo (VERY unpopular opinion at the time). And of course they did and Fitz refused to act in both attempting to fix the goalie situation and continuing to let a coaching staff stay in place after they had clearly lost the room.
Because in totality, he had a better overall coaching performance with the Pens than Sullivan imo. Folks can call it a draw because of the Sullivan Cups I guess, but anything more than that is revisionist history.
I like what little exposure I had to him when he attempted Bluesky, but there's no denying that he's a heel. I'm not gonna put any weight on what he says.
What in the world could the injury be that could be a career-ender without it looking like he got killed on the ice?
While I agree, he wasn't the only one to say it. The others I saw also removed their posts.
Not saying the core is the problem by any means. but that would always be the game plan no matter who we’re playing. Teams always try and shut down the other team’s best players. That’s not blanket absolution.
So Ive asked around, I have some connects with the team (and ive said some stuff thats been correct in here before)
I think it would be Marty with Lou as senior advisor myself, which would drive people crazier than anything Fitz has done lolI was under the impression that analytics had a healthy voice in the room. And at one point, that seemed obvious. I think Rempe (and, indirectly, Tom Wilson) scuttled all of that. Now it seems like Fitz has more say over personnel decisions and it's mostly not been great. I'd say the best acquisitions were the depth pieces he got at the trade deadline, particularly Dumo. Glass has had some good moments as well and should excel as a bottom six center.
I do agree with "be careful what you wish for" as a mantra to live by here. Don't do it as long as we have Chuck Fletcher as an advisor. Even though it doesn't seem like he'd be a top name within the organization to begin with, I'm not taking that chance. But this is make-or-break for Fitz as GM. I went from "this guy is doing the right things to get us to the Cup" to "I'm not so sure if he's getting us a Cup" over the course of the season. His problem is the opposite of Shero's: he has an eye for blue line talent, but his forward adds have been mostly underwhelming.
My easy solution is to exhume Shero, put his brain on a circuitboard, and install it on a computer to make it a second GM.
I dont disagree, BUT teams like CAR can throw out their 3rd line to take the pressure off of their Top 6 to just generate offense.
Should note Dellow left the team this offseason to join Tulsky in Carolina. Though I don’t think there was anything to that besides him and Tulsky being long time friends and he got a promotion out of it.I was under the impression that analytics had a healthy voice in the room. And at one point, that seemed obvious. I think Rempe (and, indirectly, Tom Wilson) scuttled all of that. Now it seems like Fitz has more say over personnel decisions and it's mostly not been great. I'd say the best acquisitions were the depth pieces he got at the trade deadline, particularly Dumo. Glass has had some good moments as well and should excel as a bottom six center.
I do agree with "be careful what you wish for" as a mantra to live by here. Don't do it as long as we have Chuck Fletcher as an advisor. Even though it doesn't seem like he'd be a top name within the organization to begin with, I'm not taking that chance. But this is make-or-break for Fitz as GM. I went from "this guy is doing the right things to get us to the Cup" to "I'm not so sure if he's getting us a Cup" over the course of the season. His problem is the opposite of Shero's: he has an eye for blue line talent, but his forward adds have been mostly underwhelming.
My easy solution is to exhume Shero, put his brain on a circuitboard, and install it on a computer to make it a second GM.
Just a guess, but I think what's happening is that Fitz has a profile in mind and the staff tries to meet him in the middle re: size, physicality, experience, underlying numbers, relative undervalued-ness and price to acquire. I think Noesen, Kovacevic and Dumoulin are examples of that, maybe to a lesser extent Haula and Cotter.I was under the impression that analytics had a healthy voice in the room. And at one point, that seemed obvious. I think Rempe (and, indirectly, Tom Wilson) scuttled all of that. Now it seems like Fitz has more say over personnel decisions and it's mostly not been great. I'd say the best acquisitions were the depth pieces he got at the trade deadline, particularly Dumo. Glass has had some good moments as well and should excel as a bottom six center.
I do agree with "be careful what you wish for" as a mantra to live by here. Don't do it as long as we have Chuck Fletcher as an advisor. Even though it doesn't seem like he'd be a top name within the organization to begin with, I'm not taking that chance. But this is make-or-break for Fitz as GM. I went from "this guy is doing the right things to get us to the Cup" to "I'm not so sure if he's getting us a Cup" over the course of the season. His problem is the opposite of Shero's: he has an eye for blue line talent, but his forward adds have been mostly underwhelming.
My easy solution is to exhume Shero, put his brain on a circuitboard, and install it on a computer to make it a second GM.
The big swing for a President and GM would be Pat Brisson. In the past there has been speculation on whether he would jump from agent side to management side. I don’t know if this would be a job he would make that leap for. But he was Marty’s agent when he squeezed that extra year out of Lou. And he is Jack, Luke and Quinn’s agent (on top of being Crosby and MacKinnon’s agent among other high profile players).
