And yet it's not Leafs fans talking about how Leafs fans feel about Dubas.
I don't give the slightest about how Dubas is doing in Pitts. I kinda feel like he was brought in to be the inevitable fall guy when things start going bad and Crosby and Malkin retire.
Pens fans have seen a lot of success and well Dubas seems like the perfect guy to blame when a rebuild is needed.
The issue with the Leafs is they let a dipshit like Shanahan have a ton of power and say and when he intefers with a job he hired someone to do, it's odd to entirely blame the other bloke.
Did Dubas did some dumb shit in Toronto? Sure. Every single gm in the history of this sport have. But to act as if he's done jack shit for good is just full on nonsense. Also if you've noticed, quite literally any Penguins move that has a thread on the main board is bombarded with Dubas hate by a lot of Leafs fans. Not all, a lot of. It just derails any convo about those moves and especially when it's ignored how much of a complete moron Mike Sullivan is. He's routinely ruined players and the Pens are on their 3rd GM.
Spoiler alert - That's a coach problem that is empowered by a moron in the Pens ownership. It's literally the dumbest situation in the league and it's more than likely why NO ONE wanted the Pens GM job. NHL execs talk. They are aware of Sullivan having a ton of day with ownership backing. No coach in this league has that much power except for that idiot.
NHL execs also know he's had JR quit, Allvin was more than happy to leave when he was called by JR and Hextall had a media hit job by dipshits that make Steve Simmons look competent just to protect Sullivan.
Could Dubas' moves suck? Who the f*** knows. Sullivan has made moves 2 other GM's made look far worse, kind of hard to judge his moves under that microscope. He's drafted pretty decent so far for the Pens. That's about all we can really comment on as Pens fans. The rest has so much of that Boston dipshit Sullivan's finger prints on why it sucks it's hard to really say how much it's the players that Dubas brought in.
Because everyone but Geno and Blomqvist suck on this team. Crosby is a garbage player right now, just absolute trash. Worse than Malkin ever was last season. To see that and the coach do nothing but force the same shit, yeah...
And again, you want to fault Dubas for not forcing the ownership to let him fire a coach? He's literally said the same Pens media prepared shit about Sullivan that JR, Burke, and Hextall had to say. It's more than likely both Gm's wanted to fire Sullivan.
Sullivan went over Hextall and Burke's heads to negotiate with the owners directly. When was the last time you heard that in the league. Owners might push to fire a coach or the Brindy situation where the owner is an idiot but then let's his GM do the work anyway, but the Pens are a f***ing embarrassment of a franchise with this ownership.
But acting like he went all rogue under a control freak like Shanahan, lol.