The Unknown Poster Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Saw some twitter rumours that Pat Brisson might end up as Pens GM. He is Sidney Crosby's agent. Speculation on Shero was that he wanted to replace Bylsma with Trotz and Mario et al balked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBieber Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Sure the Predators lacked goal scoring, but that team wasn't exactly filled with offensive firepower... a defensive clean-up is exactly what the Penguins need. Trotz would be perfect in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 They should hire Torts!! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17to85 Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Sure the Predators lacked goal scoring, but that team wasn't exactly filled with offensive firepower... a defensive clean-up is exactly what the Penguins need. Trotz would be perfect in my mind. Trotz also likely comes with the former Nashville goalie coach and the preds in addition to being a defense factory also churned out goalies like no ones business so maybe he could have gotten Fleury to be more consistent. Somewhere along the way Trotz has picked up the reputation that he can't coach offensive players, not sure why or how but it's ridiculous. That man is a great coach. You don't stay in one place as long as he did without being one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweep the leg Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 I'd take Trotz on the Pens any day. I don't like that they only fired Shero w/o Bylsma. Any GM worth hiring won't want to keep Bylsma anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted May 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Another piece of speculation I heard was that Shero didn't want to fire Bylsma so they fired him instead. Who knows. I always thought Crosby and Dan were tight. You hear of the country club atmosphere and the "system" being whatever the stats want. Though supposedly Mario ran the locker room a similar way where practice was never hard. The difference might be that Mario was the most talented player of all time and made everyone better. Did isn't tnere yet. Point being, is this showing more influence from sid on ten team? On the other hand speculation is there was an impasse between sid and dan. Who knows. It seems clear Crosby is frustrated at the expectation he has to be the set up guy, the goal scorer, the defensive player etc. I don't blame him. And I like dan. But five years in a row you have no answer? That's on the coach. There's going down swinging and then there's just going down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goalie Posted May 19, 2014 Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 Brisson has declined. He will not be the Pens next GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted June 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Jim Rutherford is the new GM. Dan Bylsma has been fired. AtlanticRiderFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iso_55 Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Jim Rutherford is the new GM. Dan Bylsma has been fired. NHL Old Boys Club working here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBieber Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Pretty good move for Rutherford on a personal level. Not sure it's the right move for Pittsburgh. Will be interesting to see who the coach is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasty Nate Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 They should hire Torts!! LOL I think Torturella (Torts) is gonna have to sit at least one year out. He's being paid handsomnly as he sucked Vancouver into a 5 yr x 2 million/yr contract guarantee. Still has 8 million (or settlement value) left on his deal. Prolly does what Torts does best - talk hockey on either TSN or Sportsnet panels. Actually, I think he'd be a decent color commentator with the right pbp man (ie. NOT COLE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweep the leg Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Jim Rutherford is the new GM. Dan Bylsma has been fired. NHL Old Boys Club working here. Not at all. He said at his press conference that he'll only be there for two or three years at most. He's basically there to mentor Jason Botterill until he's ready for the job. Botterill is only 38. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlanticRiderFan Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 I will cry if DB does to Vancouver . And if Torts gets hired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted June 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Bylsma is a good choice. I think the problem with the pens is all about personnel. They don't have the depth or grit. I don't know enough about Rutherford. I've heard good and bad. But this idea of mentorship might be a trend. Rumour has it pens are in on Brodeaur to mentor fleury. Any team that hires Tortz is stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweep the leg Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Sounds like Willie Desjardins will be the Pens new coach. From what I've read & heard about him he seems like a good choice. More than likely he'll have Tocchet as one of his asst coaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goalie Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Sounds like Willie Desjardins will be the Pens new coach. From what I've read & heard about him he seems like a good choice. More than likely he'll have Tocchet as one of his asst coaches Desjardins will not be the coach of the Pens, Looks like he is now going to be the coach of the canucks. These things seem to change on a daily basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweep the leg Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Pens hire Mike Johnston from the Portland Winterhawks. I heard lots of rumours about Ron Wilson, so this hire makes me very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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