Exactly, and Friedman openly stated that it was speculation and not hard core fact that the Pens had interviewed those veteran GMs. But sites like TIOPS only care about clicks and not accuracy. They want to pretend they're in the know.
I'll pass on Keefe.
He's .678 so far in his coaching career. At this point I'm not even expecting playoffs, so if he'd get us in that'd be a pleasant surprise.
Better in 2023-24 for us? Old beaten horse vs the fresh start? Not so convinced of that after this season, where Sullivan coached very poorly.
I lost all respect for Keefe when he took back his criticism of his star players earlier this year. After a loss, he said the stars didn't play like stars. The he walked it back and said, “I used some of the wrong words to try to describe what I was trying to describe, which is that the difference in the game was just, we weren’t able to produce, whether it’s power play or five-on-five."
Yes. And I think Sullivan has gotten entirely too cozy.
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Wilson had been on medical leave for several months before he officially stepped down and then retired.
Keefe has brought innovative ideas to how to run offense in the offensive zone, and Keefe's Toronto teams do a pretty good job of clogging up the front of their own net and not allowing a bunch of rebounds. Two things I think could really help the Pens.
It's actually mind boggling how bad they've been in all those areas. You could probably hire an intern to just browse through draft previews and select players and come away with a similar (or even better) result than what we've got.
Not only have the players targeted been shitty, they make no sense from the standpoint of trying to build an identity.
Unless the identity is vanilla, boring, zero specialization. Then they've really honed in on their type.
Other teams try to draft the next Crosby or the next McDavid or the next Makar, but we've decided to go a different route and focus all our energy on drafting the next Nick Spaling and the next Chad Ruhwedel.Not only have the players targeted been shitty, they make no sense from the standpoint of trying to build an identity.
Hey, at least Broz is a dollar store Sheary. Sorry, Broz is 6' 180, Sheary's only 5'9 and 180. So Broz is actually less stocky than the notably tanky Conor Sheary.
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