Confirmed with Link: Penguins and Mike Sullivan part ways

[JTG]

Probably not. They can decide if they want to give it to us instead of next year's. But clearly they want to be better next year so they'll probably keep it.

So if the wheels DO fall off in NY. We could potentially snag McKenna?

 

[pistolpete11]

I see NYR with Sullivan going similarly to Lavy and Gallant before him.

Year 1: Much improved, make the playoffs, maybe win a series or 2
Year 2: Their skilled players start to turn on him, it becomes a disaster, they miss the playoffs

Which is worst case scenario for us. A whole year of listening to how great Sullivan is and getting the Rangers 26OV pick in 2026. Can't push off the inevitable, though.

 

[PamBallam]

With Sully dragging Torts of all people along, and the Rangers already having a dysfunctional locker room, I don't even know if they get the "New Coach Bump." I can see that being a train wreck from day 1.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Official now

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Least surprising news of the millenium.

 

[Jesse]

Hearing 5 years, $35M as the price tag.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Hearing 5 years, $35M as the price tag.

Yep that’s definitely Sullivan resetting the coaching market.

Was obvious the Rangers would do whatever it took to get Sullivan, and it turns out “whatever it took” was a dump truck of cash.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Lol.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Anyhow, couldn't happen to a nicer team, hope they enjoy some incredibly boring hockey.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Hearing 5 years, $35M as the price tag.

His client getting canned was the best thing to ever happen to Sully’s agent

 

[Ugene Magic]

Least surprising news of the millenium.

Also least surprising is, Sully bumping heads with one J.T. Miller, or putting out the fire in the Breadman fiasco, and not getting the most out of Zib, Kreider and Lafs...... And trying to get the nipple Shesterkin's been suckling on to perform to standards.

He doesn't have his player whisperer Tocchet in tow here. I'd love it if Torts was with him for the compete chaos package.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Hearing 5 years, $35M as the price tag.

Did they just mutually scrap his current deal? or is that the extension to it?

 

[Deport Ogie]

Did they just mutually scrap his current deal? or is that the extension to it?

This becomes his current deal now and the previous with the Pens is scrapped. So FSG now owes him nussing.

 

[SomeDude]

They truly deserve each other.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Sully was here for a while. Players never really turned on him. I think it was more that he got stale, lost what made him good, and turned into every other mid coach in the league.

But he is going to murder Zib by Thanksgiving and play Kreider 22 min a night.

I don’t know how great a fit it is for him personnel-wise but he’ll probably do well initially in all honesty.

 

[SomeDude]

Sully was here for a while. Players never really turned on him. I think it was more that he got stale, lost what made him good, and turned into every other mid coach in the league.

The ones that did were quickly disappeared.

Karlsson also seemed on the brink of calling him out before he was reined in.

 

[Jdodd]

Man do I hope we get the 2026 pick for numerous reasons….mainly to watch everything go down whether the rags are great, mediocre, or god awful…

And if they hire Torts……will be great entertainment…

Like Emp said they aren’t set up for sully’s system.
Likely the 2026 rags pick is somewhere around where it is now in that 10-15 range maybe 10-20 range, but they will have stretches where the look like a playoff team and stretches where it will look like it is a top 10 pick.

 

[Trade]

Sullivan's gonna turn Trochek into a 25 minute a night player because he's elite on faceoffs.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

Yep that’s definitely Sullivan resetting the coaching market.

Was obvious the Rangers would do whatever it took to get Sullivan, and it turns out “whatever it took” was a dump truck of cash.

He'll work out just as well as Babcock did in Toronto
But hey, get paid

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

The ones that did were quickly disappeared.

Karlsson also seemed on the brink of calling him out before he was reined in.

Weak. Yall hate him so much it is blinding. He’s not close to Torts or Babcock. Players and people everywhere seem to like him. Im sure a couple players think he jobbed them and I’m sure a couple are correct (Sprong, Cole). But I don’t think losing the room or being a ok dude is an issue at all.

 

[SomeDude]

Weak. Yall hate him so much it is blinding. He’s not close to Torts or Babcock. Players and people everywhere seem to like him. Im sure a couple players think he jobbed them and I’m sure a couple are correct (Sprong, Cole). But I don’t think losing the room or being a ok dude is an issue at all.

What are you even talking about? You said players never turned on him and I pointed out instances where players did. Eller was traded within 24-48 hours of him criticizing the coaching staff.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

But don’t get me wrong it is ridiculous to give any NHL coach 7M a year for 5 years. Full out absurd. This isn’t the NFL.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Hope he runs that shitbag org into the ditch.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

What are you even talking about? You said players never turned on him and I pointed out instances where players did. Eller was traded within 24-48 hours of him criticizing the coaching staff.

This? He blames the players here.

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/penguins/2024/10/18/carolina-hurricanes-joel-blomqvist-evgeni-malkin/stories/202410140115

I asked chat gpt and it says Eller never called out the coaching staff. Maybe I’m missing something?

 

[Andy99]

Drury recreating the coaching bench of his last two seasons as Rangers captain lol…

Hope the nostalgia tour goes well for him…lol…not