Empoleon8771
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One additional point about the Penguins coaching staff: according to rumors from the Pittsburgh media, Sullivan was adamant about Rierden not being fired last off-season despite the Penguins finishing with the 30th ranked PP last year at 15.3% after adding Karlsson. The only way Sullivan would allow Rierden to be fired was if he could pick the assistant, which he ended up doing by hiring his friend David Quinn to replace Rierden despite Quinn having no experience as a PP coach.
Dubas has made some clearly shitty moves with the Penguins, with the Graves and Jarry deals being the big ones, but I think people need to look at the Penguins situation in the correct context. They have a head coach with an absurd amount of power for the job he has done in the past few years, I do not know of another team in the NHL that has a head coach with the power in the organization that Sullivan has. Let alone getting into the "undeserved" discussion of that power.
I know why Dubas accepted the Penguins position ($$$$), but the position itself seems like it was not an attractive position to be taking. The Penguins were an old and declining team that wanted to ignore that reality and had a coach that arguably had more power/sway on the owners than the GM. Had he come in with the correct mindset of "this team needs to rebuild, I want to tear this team down", I honestly don't know that he even would have been hired in the first place.
Dubas has made some clearly shitty moves with the Penguins, with the Graves and Jarry deals being the big ones, but I think people need to look at the Penguins situation in the correct context. They have a head coach with an absurd amount of power for the job he has done in the past few years, I do not know of another team in the NHL that has a head coach with the power in the organization that Sullivan has. Let alone getting into the "undeserved" discussion of that power.
I know why Dubas accepted the Penguins position ($$$$), but the position itself seems like it was not an attractive position to be taking. The Penguins were an old and declining team that wanted to ignore that reality and had a coach that arguably had more power/sway on the owners than the GM. Had he come in with the correct mindset of "this team needs to rebuild, I want to tear this team down", I honestly don't know that he even would have been hired in the first place.