Nah, his style is more looking the other way as someone assaults a landmine and then giving that person a recommendation to get a job at a high school for landmines.
As I said earlier, there are only 32 NHL GM positions. Openings are quite rare and unless you're an all-star player or head coach, its kind of the holy grail of hockey jobs. Very small, selective community. I think regardless of the position your team is in, there will be several willing to take the position. I believe at this point, the is less pressure on a GM than in the height of the Sid/Geno era where it was "cup or bust". Now you at least get to point to the fact that the guys are all 35+ and it's a young guys game.
All of this plus I have seen people call the Penguins job a ‘marquee’ one. In terms of franchise prestige, don’t think we’re up there with the O6 teams quite yet but we’re definitely looked on as a big time job regardless of situation.
O6 minus Chicago at the moment.
Speculation. The GM is in charge of the coaching to do with what he wants. The comments in the presser are standard lip service. You're not going to dump all over a guy you want to want to have be part of the process. As I've said in the past too, if you want him out from behind the bench, promote him up.
DK was also beating the drum all season long that FSG were absentee owners. More than any other media member. Then it turns out they’ve been pretty involved all along. Maybe he’s right on this but DK gets caught up in his own emotions a lot.
Didn’t Mario and Burkle do the same thing with Shero and Bylsma? They fired Shero, talked up Bylsma and then let JR fire Bylsma as soon as he came in.
Multi-billion dollar company let Ron Hextall remain in charge. Also, any respectable ownership group fires Sullivan after that loss to Chicago.
If GMs hear “we really like Sullivan and we just gave him a contract extension “ that’s basically saying we’re not interested in firing him to all GM candidates…nothing is going to be said aloud…it’s just that no candidates are going to come in there and say they think Sullivan is part of the problem who want to get the job…to the contrary, I think anyone who doesn’t toe the company perspective that Sullivan walks on water just won’t be hired…also, the core wants Sullivan to stay…I think that’s a big reason FSG pumps him so much…Sid loves him because he doesn’t want to play a defensively responsible system and wants to play aggressively offensive regardless of whether the team has the players to do so…
It was presumed Bylsma would be let go - just a matter of when. Ownership and the media were not slobbering over him - very different situations.
He also loves Sullivan lol, which colors his viewpoint
UMMMMM you know that do you ?
Yep But the Mental Illness is strong here
