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The good thing about this team is that next season it will be older and more experienced.
Anyone who doesn’t think that his voice, as likely the longest tenured Pens employee at the table and one most closely working with the new GM team, won’t be given the most weight is delusional
Ex-Flyers, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel of the org, can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back. Don't you go dying on me.
*jump cut*
I got robbed by a sweet old goalie on a motorized cart. And I didn't even see it coming!
Yep, the dreaded “we’ll learn from this” rears its ugly head…be better than this Sid! Lol
These FSG chucklef***wads are probably still writing their Excuse-O-Dex list right about now.
Or they’ll try and spin some garbage narrative about how “Sully knows that next season can/will be “different” because “he knows that they are a bunch who will “learn” from this humbling wake-up call.”
Or some such Beantown f***ing garbage……
It gets worse, my parakeet Beau Bennett, he's dead, his head fell off.Where’s the booze!!!
If a new GM doesn't "Bylsma" Sullivan immediately after being hired, you'll have your answer.Let's see who they hire before getting too Sully despondent. This isn't the old boys club of Mario, we've got slick corporate double-talkers in charge now who may love Sully or are just bs'ing us and he'll be fired by the new GM.
Logic and reason have no place on a message board.It's funny how many conclusions are jumped to around here based on interpreting what is basically marketing-speak and then extrapolating things that were never said.
When Shero was fired, but Bylsma wasn't fired on the same day, these boards had all the same "we're definitely stuck with Bylsma!" posts that we see about Sullivan. We even had the same sort of "he's a good coach and we like him" from ownership at the time.
Then Rutherford was hired, and Bylsma was fired first thing.
It's still possible a new GM could decide to retain Sullivan, but Beeston specifically said it would be the call of the new GM. Which means that ownership is not going to tell them they have to keep him.
To me, that says it's more likely than not that Sullivan won't be kept, because a new GM is going to want to hire their own coach.
There's also this weird idea that Sullivan is going to choose the new GM. It has been stated several times now that he isn't involved in hiring the new GM. His duties in the interim are exactly what any head coach would be doing this time of year: evaluation of players, and attempting to figure out where they want to go next year. Since he hasn't been fired as of yet, having him continue to do the job that he currently holds should not be interpreted as some sort of weird "he has ultimate power!" like seems to be happening around here.
One other thing to consider - normally when a GM is fired, one of the Assistants gets an Interim title to run things. FSG cleared the entire front office. There is no AGM to take over. But the team is still there, and things still need to be taken care of. That leads to an unusual circumstance where they have people who otherwise wouldn't be involved in this stuff taking care of things. That said, none of the duties Sullivan listed sounded like anything that wouldn't normally be a Head Coach's responsibility in the offseason.
I get that the pessimism is built up over time from experience, but remember: almost all of that experience comes from a time under different ownership. We don't know how FSG will do things yet. This summer will give us our first real insight into it.
Oh god, we are f***ed.- Alec Schall, director of hockey ops - he's a former agent and oversaw contracts and the cap. He's going to get all the end of season financial stuff in order for the next administration.
You dont actually believe this, right?Sullivan very well could be back next year. In fact, it's quite probable. But a new GM could quite possibly tell FSG, "I know you like Mike, but I'm confident I can hire XYZ and give us a fresh start" and FSG will be on board with it.
It gets worse, my parakeet Beau Bennett, he's dead, his head fell off.
Anyone who doesn’t think that his voice, as likely the longest tenured Pens employee at the table and one most closely working with the new GM team, won’t be given the most weight is delusional
You’re handcuffed by the owners saying you are going to need to give Sully another chance, and that they pinky promise you can fire him [in 2026].This is actually a great GM opportunity. If it works out you're a hero, and if not who cares.
Amen.I want someone to buy ME out. No, actually I want someone to buy our Rust and give me the money instead.
*Trade Granlund and a second for an expiring contract at the draftTrade Granlund retained for a second at the draft.
My two guesses. Call them my pessimism:Oh hell yeah. From the guy who brought "buy out Zucker" all last summer comes the new hit "buy out Rust and Granlund."
And next summer, it'll be "buy out Jarry and Dumoulin".