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APRIL 23, 2015
Column: Colossal change needed? Be serious
BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC
Jim Rutherford isn’t getting fired. Nor is he quitting, barring something unforeseen.
I’ve been told that definitively, right from the Penguins’ brass.
Mike Johnston isn’t getting fired, either.
Heard that tonight.
Neither Sidney Crosby nor Evgeni Malkin is going anywhere.
That comes from the very, very top.
You know, when it comes to the Penguins, maybe the most simultaneously star-laded and starcrossed franchise in professional sports, the solutions that tend to get suggested for any problem, large or small, are gargantuan. And that’s probably not a coincidence. For years, the public and press — I’m no exception — would coo with every one of Ray Shero’s larger-than-life trades, and he’d seldom disappoint, at least if measured by headline font size. The answers would come in the form of Marian Hossa, Jarome Iginla, so many others. It was all big, big, big.
Well, larger-than-life solutions aren’t coming. They won’t happen this offseason.
http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/04/23/column-time-for-colossal-change-please/
Column: Colossal change needed? Be serious
BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC
Jim Rutherford isn’t getting fired. Nor is he quitting, barring something unforeseen.
I’ve been told that definitively, right from the Penguins’ brass.
Mike Johnston isn’t getting fired, either.
Heard that tonight.
Neither Sidney Crosby nor Evgeni Malkin is going anywhere.
That comes from the very, very top.
You know, when it comes to the Penguins, maybe the most simultaneously star-laded and starcrossed franchise in professional sports, the solutions that tend to get suggested for any problem, large or small, are gargantuan. And that’s probably not a coincidence. For years, the public and press — I’m no exception — would coo with every one of Ray Shero’s larger-than-life trades, and he’d seldom disappoint, at least if measured by headline font size. The answers would come in the form of Marian Hossa, Jarome Iginla, so many others. It was all big, big, big.
Well, larger-than-life solutions aren’t coming. They won’t happen this offseason.
http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/04/23/column-time-for-colossal-change-please/