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[SJinNewJersey]

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NHL rumors: Mike Sullivan could leave Penguins, join Devils next season​

Nick Kypreos of the Toronto Star said that Sullivan is interested in joining the Devils, a team that has several strong young players and appears to be one that should be in playoff contention for several years. The Devils made the playoffs in 2022-23, but they struggled much of the 2023-24 season.

“Rumors of Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan leaving Pittsburgh to join close friend Tom Fitzgerald in New Jersey won’t dissipate. Despite being under contract, it could simply come down to Sullivan’s lack of confidence in GM (Kyle) Dubas’s ability to contend anytime soon.”

 

[My3Sons]

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NHL rumors: Mike Sullivan could leave Penguins, join Devils next season​

Nick Kypreos of the Toronto Star said that Sullivan is interested in joining the Devils, a team that has several strong young players and appears to be one that should be in playoff contention for several years. The Devils made the playoffs in 2022-23, but they struggled much of the 2023-24 season.

“Rumors of Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan leaving Pittsburgh to join close friend Tom Fitzgerald in New Jersey won’t dissipate. Despite being under contract, it could simply come down to Sullivan’s lack of confidence in GM (Kyle) Dubas’s ability to contend anytime soon.”

If Sullivan is good friends with Fitz then I think it happens. That’s Fitz’s MO

 

[Bleedred]

How does this happen? He ''resigns'' or ''Steps down'' from the Pens and then we hire him?

Other than Brent Sutter, I can't think of a coach in the league leaving one team for another while he was still under cotract.

And even Sutter didn't join the Flames until like 10 days later or something.

 

[NJDevs26]

How would Sullivan engineer a departure, take a page out of the Bill Parcells playbook and resign then sign up as a ‘consultant’ to force a trade?

 

[ZYXWVUT]

Idk Kypreos seems to say a lot of things that don’t ever actually happen.

 

[Bleedred]

I heard he'll only come here if Fitz punts the shit out of Travis Green. He doesn't want an anchor like that on his staff.

 

[My3Sons]

I heard he'll only come here if Fitz punts the shit out of Travis Green. He doesn't want an anchor like that on his staff.

He wants Blackwood back as the goalie though . Someone with the team has to piss you off

 

[MadDevil]

"Despite being under contract, it could simply come down to Sullivan’s lack of confidence in GM (Kyle) Dubas’s ability to contend anytime soon.”

Sure Kyper.

And I'm not even a Dubas guy, but this seems like him throwing shit at the wall...oh, excuse me "speculating"...to take a shot at him.

 

[NjDevsRR]

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NHL rumors: Mike Sullivan could leave Penguins, join Devils next season​

Nick Kypreos of the Toronto Star said that Sullivan is interested in joining the Devils, a team that has several strong young players and appears to be one that should be in playoff contention for several years. The Devils made the playoffs in 2022-23, but they struggled much of the 2023-24 season.

“Rumors of Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan leaving Pittsburgh to join close friend Tom Fitzgerald in New Jersey won’t dissipate. Despite being under contract, it could simply come down to Sullivan’s lack of confidence in GM (Kyle) Dubas’s ability to contend anytime soon.”

 

[ScottyK]

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Too bad it's Kypreos, for once let him be right lol

If Sullivan is good friends with Fitz then I think it happens. That’s Fitz’s MO

Bout to see the first coach "trade" in a while lol. Enjoy Pittsburgh Holtzy ( as he scores 30 playing with sid and we all collectively shit ourselves

 

[theoptimist]

Too bad it's Kypreos, for once let him be right lol


Bout to see the first coach "trade" in a while lol. Enjoy Pittsburgh Holtzy ( as he scores 30 playing with sid and we all collectively shit ourselves

I won't be salty if we trade Holtz and he finds his game somewhere else. Zacha/Sharangovich are just recent examples of guys finding their stride after leaving (Ty Smith is NOT). Happens and doesn't happen, just not fair to hate myself after the fact

 

[Bleedred]

Any day without Green being confirmed fired is a day where I can’t be completely happy.

Fire the f*** out of this f***in DOLT.

Guy sucks. I don’t even want him running our power play.

 

[Bleedred]

Team combined save percentage of .909% and a record of 8-12-1 under this guy. That’s remarkably consistent with the .909% team save percentage under Green that the Canucks in the 25 games where he went 8-15-2 in 21-22 before he was fired in a year where he shouldn’t have even been fired.

I hate this coach with a passion. He was bad well before he got here. He’s a known commodity of suck.

I hope the only place in the league he coaches again is a place on one of our rivals.

 

[My3Sons]

Team combined save percentage of .909% and a record of 8-12-1 under this guy. That’s remarkably consistent with the .909% team save percentage under Green that the Canucks in the 25 games where he went 8-15-2 in 21-22 before he was fired in a year where he shouldn’t have even been fired.

I hate this coach with a passion. He was bad well before he got here. He’s a known commodity of suck.

I hope the only place in the league he coaches again is a place on one of our rivals.

Do you are open to giving him a chance to be the permanent replacement for Ruff?

 

[Mgd31]

Too bad it's Kypreos, for once let him be right lol


Bout to see the first coach "trade" in a while lol. Enjoy Pittsburgh Holtzy ( as he scores 30 playing with sid and we all collectively shit ourselves

Luckily I think coach trades are no longer legal

 

[ZYXWVUT]

I still maintain if they make green the guy I won’t be able to take the organization seriously anymore. That’ll be my breaking point.

 

[Bleedred]

I still maintain if they make green the guy I won’t be able to take the organization seriously anymore. That’ll be my breaking point.

I'll always be a fan, but that'll push me to completely turning against Fitz.

That would be an NWO style or Stone Cold Wrestlemania 17 heel turn.

He says he wants experience. I'm guessing because it's safer than going with a new guy or an unknown. But going with an experienced guy like Green is NOT safe, because he has a long enough resume of sucking at the NHL level.

Why not just hire Evason if he's even tempted to go Green.

 

[Bleedred]

I'm sure Sullivan knows the Pens have hit the end of the road.

But they easily still could have gotten into the playoffs the last two years, I'm just not sure they'd win a round without a whole lotta luck.

Like the Caps, they haven't won a round since 2018 I'm pretty sure. But I don't think they're as fried or decrepit as the Capitals. That's for sure. Not yet.

In not so an odd year, I think we see the Devils and Penguins in the playoffs this year, the Islanders and Capitals out.

 

[NjDevsRR]

All this Green talk is frankly bizarre

He won’t be apart of this organization after this offseason

 

[Guttersniped]

All this Green talk is frankly bizarre

He won’t be apart of this organization after this offseason

Eh, he hasn’t been fired yet, people need to emotionally prepare for the possibility of another year of him as an assistant. I wouldn’t like it either but it could happen.

There’s no way he should get the HC job though. Fitz said he wanted a coach hired by the draft, they aren’t rushing into it.

 

[Killing Joke]

Too bad it's Kypreos, for once let him be right lol


Bout to see the first coach "trade" in a while lol. Enjoy Pittsburgh Holtzy ( as he scores 30 playing with sid and we all collectively shit ourselves

Kypreos had Dougie's contract with us here before even Friedman and how the Guentzel contract talks were going no where before anyone else.

 

[Bcap88]

Sullivan and Pitt could mutually agree to part ways giving Sullivan the out to come here.
would have to happen sooner rather than later cause I’m sure dubas would want to find his guy

 

[Smitty426]

Sullivan and Pitt could mutually agree to part ways giving Sullivan the out to come here.
would have to happen sooner rather than later cause I’m sure dubas would want to find his guy

Keefe gonna be let go real soon so maybe they could reunite!

 

[Smitty426]

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Bring Petey with ya Sully, Bahl + going the other way!

 

[Bleedred]

I wonder how Sullivan can happen? He steps down from Pittsburgh, then we hire him a week or two later like how Dubas showed up in Pittsburgh after Toronto?

I know Dubas technically didn’t step down, so I’m not sure why I made that comparison.

And maybe we do some kind of favor(s) for Pittsburgh later. Like trade them someone for cheaper than we otherwise would (Holtz) or help them out some way.