Confirmed with Link: It's Started! (Management firings)

[Allie Kitsune]

Exactly... but in all fairness he pretty much already is. JR CANNED.....HEX CANNED... What sane man would take this job when your HC will undermine every decision?

I'd take the job and I would bet my life savings that I could make Sully cry publicly.

With or Without going to prison for Assault?

 

[Josey Wales]

F***** right. Please don’t ever step foot in this city again Ron

Mario & Burkle chose Hextall Suck on that

 

[Zbynek]

Rob Rossi, who is never right about anything and has never broken a story in his life, went out of his way to report that the people reporting this rumor last night were dead wrong.

The biggest doofus in Pittsburgh though Kingerski is now giving him a serious run for his money

 

[MrBurghundy]

Oh how I love the collective knowledge of these boards sometimes. People want to bitch just to bitch. Sullivan is here until the new GM decides if he wants to keep him or not. Sullivan is just assisting in keeping things running in the meantime. This is pretty standard shit guys. Come on now.

The new GM may decide to keep him, and at that time you can bitch till your hearts content. Until then just chill the f*** out.

 

[Coastal Kev]

With or Without going to prison for Assault?

Prison?? It would simply be a verbal assaults' of TRUTH>

 

[Zero Pucks]

Having Sullivan assist in the GM search instantly limits interested potential GM's. Who wants to be the Pens GM if they can't even pick the coach they see fit for the team?

 

[Zbynek]

Oh how I love the collective knowledge of these boards sometimes. People want to bitch just to bitch. Sullivan is here until the new GM decides if he wants to keep him or not. Sullivan is just assisting in keeping things running in the meantime. This is pretty standard shit guys. Come on now.

The new GM may decide to keep him, and at that time you can bitch till your hearts content. Until then just chill the f*** out.

If it was a formality, it wouldn't have been written into the statement.

 

[Pens1566]

Deck chairs on the titanic. Doesn't matter who they bring is as GM. Whatever players are brought in will be misused. Offensive talent will play on checking lines with high DZone starts, and grinder tweeners will be stapled to Sid/Geno.

 

[heysmilinstrange]

Rob Rossi, who is never right about anything and has never broken a story in his life, went out of his way to report that the people reporting this rumor last night were dead wrong.

Rossi also complained about local reporters passing wild speculation off as legitimate reportage, which was hilarious coming from him.

 

[OnMyOwn]

Sully has a contract that is just kicking in. He wasn’t going anywhere. This is still good news.

 

[MrBurghundy]

If it was a formality, it wouldn't have been written into the statement.

He's still employed by the team dude. He's going to keep doing his job until told otherwise. Just about every coach is kept until the GM decides on keeping them or not. This isn't something new or groundbreaking.

 

[wheelz87]

Oh how I love the collective knowledge of these boards sometimes. People want to bitch just to bitch. Sullivan is here until the new GM decides if he wants to keep him or not. Sullivan is just assisting in keeping things running in the meantime. This is pretty standard shit guys. Come on now.

The new GM may decide to keep him, and at that time you can bitch till your hearts content. Until then just chill the f*** out.

Seriously. This is good news. But people don’t want it to be.

 

[Empoleon8771]

They needed to get rid of the management for sure, but nothing is going to change as long as Sullivan remains coach.

 

[BillyOcean]

The biggest doofus in Pittsburgh though Kingerski is now giving him a serious run for his money

Kingerski is trying to be Rossi and Yohe. That's how pathetic he is.

 

[SomeDude]

Happy @Pens x day everyone

 

[Bnat66]

Hope you're all ready for Sully's hand-picked puppet to bring back Mark Jankowski for a return trip.

 

[MrBurghundy]

Deck chairs on the titanic. Doesn't matter who they bring is as GM. Whatever players are brought in will be misused. Offensive talent will play on checking lines with high DZone starts, and grinder tweeners will be stapled to Sid/Geno.

That's just absolutely ludicrous to say. The GM is the one who gave a f*** ton of useless garbage to the coach. Sure the coach misused that garbage, but he also won 2 Stanley Cups. Lets not act like he's the worst coach in the league either. God damn recency bias.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Oh how I love the collective knowledge of these boards sometimes. People want to bitch just to bitch. Sullivan is here until the new GM decides if he wants to keep him or not. Sullivan is just assisting in keeping things running in the meantime. This is pretty standard shit guys. Come on now.

The new GM may decide to keep him, and at that time you can bitch till your hearts content. Until then just chill the f*** out.

Lol based on what is this the case?

This is going to be exactly like the situation where Hextall took over for JR. The Penguins aren't going to hire a GM that's going to fire Sullivan. FSG loves him.

 

[Mike Jones]

When Burke first appears on CBC's playoff broadcasts he should begin by saying "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted."

 

[Pens x]

Oh how I love the collective knowledge of these boards sometimes. People want to bitch just to bitch. Sullivan is here until the new GM decides if he wants to keep him or not. Sullivan is just assisting in keeping things running in the meantime. This is pretty standard shit guys. Come on now.

The new GM may decide to keep him, and at that time you can bitch till your hearts content. Until then just chill the f*** out.

You know damn well they will consult him during the interview process. Hell, he will probably give them names of people to interview. You are a fool if you honestly believe there is a chance in hell Sully won’t be back next season.

 

[MrBurghundy]

Lol based on what is this the case?

This is going to be exactly like the situation where Hextall took over for JR. The Penguins aren't going to hire a GM that's going to fire Sullivan. FSG loves him.

Thanks for the insightful response. I didn't know we had an insider here on these boards.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Sully has a contract that is just kicking in. He wasn’t going anywhere. This is still good news.

I thought his contract didn't kick in until after next season? INCONCEIVABLE

 

[Empoleon8771]

Thanks for the insightful response. I didn't know we had an insider here on these boards.

You literally said that the new GM would decide whether to keep Sullivan or not based on literally nothing.

 

[vodeni]

NO the Ownership group loves him dimwit

obviously you too. I like the guy, I just think he has done nothing, absolutely nothing to get best out of this team. I would be curious to hear from you what has he done right in the last 4 years (and I could list some things here). When you blow a dozen third period leads, there is something about preparation, physical and mental training, strategy also if you will, when your special teams are not working the way should be working, thats coaching, I mean do you really really think he has done good job managing this roster.

 

[GregR]

I thought his contract didn't kick in until after next season? INCONCEIVABLE

You are correct