F Mike Sullivan

[Gurglesons]

Fire Mike Sullivan.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Could've made this thread once a year, every year since about 18' or 19'

 

[BobCole]

Yes, it's time. It's one thing to lose to a better team (something we will see a lot of this year). It's another to continually ice a group of guys who clearly don't even have an idea of what they are supposed to do when the puck is on the opponents' stick while surrendering 35-50 shots per game. A change is clearly needed.

 

[BobCole]

Another data point.

This is the third season I've been charting the "Deserve To Win-O-Meter" each game. In the past three seasons, this game against the Oilers was the Pens' WORST ever "Deserve to Win" figure at 9%. The Pens' second worst game in the last three seasons was this March against the Oilers, when they clocked a 12%.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Best thread ever

BEANTOWN MEATHEAD...... He was a plug as a player......he now has a team of PLUGS.... congrats

My only wish is that I could go back in time, call Rick Tocchet and tell him to please drop the gloves with Sully for me.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

I have a bad feeling that he's going to outlast all of Crosby, Malkin, Letang, and Karlsson on this team.

 

[Devilsfan2326]

I have a bad feeling that he's going to outlast all of Crosby, Malkin, Letang, and Karlsson on this team.

Get him out! Mario, talk to them!

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

If you fire a Mike Sullivan, you'll have to find a Mike Sullivan.

 

[BusinessGoose]

f*** Boston

You did one thing right with tea

f*** everything else

f*** FSG more than Sullivan, really

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

FSG looking at Sullivan's coaching record the past half decade:

 

[StaalForOne]

If you fire a Mike Sullivan, you'll have to find a Mike Sullivan.

Idk man, I would have thought that the last 2-3 years…but is there a single instance of a team keeping a coach at the end of a window, and then through a rebuild and then succeeding afterwards?

 

[BobCole]

One more stat: in the Pens' last 113 games, they are 44-69, good for a Win Rate of 39%.

 

[TNT87]

So sick of this guy. Mindboggling how he's been here this long without success.

 

[PensandCaps]

He's done nothing since 2018. It's been the same team 7 years straight, from blowing leads in the third, to not knowing how to play with structure.

No idea how this doofus is so beloved by the hockey media, he should have been canned in 2020 after the bubble.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

f*** him and f*** FSG for running this once great franchise into the f***ing ground. In damn near record time, too.

f*** Boston.

 

[Le Magnifique 66]

Time to put your big boy pants on KD or ask FSG for contract termination and leave cause if you don't you're clearly just a puppet

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Could've made this thread once a year, every year since about 18' or 19'

Once a month tbh.

 

[PensFutures]

This is not...the greatest thread in the world...this is just a tribute.

 

[Zbynek]

If you fire a Mike Sullivan, you'll have to find a Mike Sullivan.

This quote is truly the microcosm of this org

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Out of curiosity I put together Sullivan's record since the COVID shut down and it's actually better than I thought it'd be:

170-158 Regular Season + Playoffs
6-11 Playoffs only

After the Rangers playoff series loss he has been 81-92.

He probably should have been fired after the Canadiens play-in debacle but I guess COVID could be a reasonable excuse. At the very least he should've been fired after the second NYI series. (side note: getting swept by NYI was embarrassing back in the 2019)

Not firing him after the Rangers series is straight up inexcusable. He's had 2+ seasons since he should've been fired and, clearly, things are not working out.

It's rare I speak out about a coach but holy f***, make the change already.

 

[spcastlemagic]

I get not firing him in 18 - he was just coming off two cup victories, you’d figure any team to run out of steam.
I get not firing him in 19 - okay, there was some regression, but tinker with the roster you can maybe get back to winning.

I don’t get his continued employment the last half decade at all. 20 would’ve been the right time. I would’ve took 21, 22, 23!! At this point I can’t really care anymore. I want to see my favorite players do cool things, but you know this team isn’t going anywhere and nobody particularly cares at any level of the organization.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

The premature extension is what compounded the problem tenfold. It was a huge, unforced error.

 

[MayorofWBS]

When is FSG/Kindergarten Kyle going to make this stop? The bubble debacle shouldv'e been the last straw....but here we are years later.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Watch, if Sully is fired Kyle will just hire the Soo Greyhounds coach:

https://www.eliteprospects.com/staff/16320/john-dean

 

[BusinessGoose]

a twenty sided dice would run the team better than Sullivan