Confirmed with Link: Mike Johnston fired

[DegenX]

I mean, I've been pretty much just coasting off of my championship performance from six years ago. Who are these upstarts? Don't they know what I've done? Who I am?





















Okay, I admit it. I'm Rob Scuderi.

No wonder you're so slow on the ice ... must be hella jet lagged traveling back and forth from Prague all the time

 

[AR5]

what in the **** is this

edit - okay you have redeemed yourself somewhat

Sorry, my first (original and unedited) post was me reacting in the heat of the moment to the conversation a few pages back. Then I realized it had all resolved itself, and it was a bit too late...

Sorry. Didn't mean to bring it back up again. Just move along folks.

 

[HandshakeLine]

No wonder you're so slow on the ice ... must be hella jet lagged traveling back and forth from Prague all the time

No, that's just because I'm a bad skater.

 

[Shady Machine]

Yeah my view on Sprong was that if you were keeping him up, transition him to LW right away on a depth line. He can learn to play LW while playing 5 minutes a night. For now, I would go:

Kunitz-Crosby-Bennett
Perron-Malkin-Kessel
Plots-Bones-Hornqvist
Sprong-Cullen-Fehr

Ideally I'd move Plots up with Geno and Perron with Bones because I really don't like a Plots-Hornqvist combo, but that is probably the best they can do now.

The point here is to let Sprong learn the NHL game at the position you want him at next year. Send him down to juniors in 12 or whatever games and call up Simon, Wilson, whoever for the rest of the year.

 

[PensBandwagonerNo272*]

Just talk to him about wanting him to work on playing LW in the Q, ask the Q team to play him on LW, and let him go for the year. Drouin originally played LW but TB sent him back for another year of junior to get him used to playing C. He played C all year.

But I mean, I can't expect this team to just make as obvious hockey decisions as Steve Yzerman.

 

[SherogoesHAM]

Did Mike Johnston have an exit interview or were there any comments from him?

 

[Shady Machine]

Did Mike Johnston have an exit interview or were there any comments from him?

Not that I saw but why would he?

 

[cygnus47]

Not that I saw but why would he?

It was just a prank guys! Why are you firing me?

 

[DesertedPenguin]

Did Mike Johnston have an exit interview or were there any comments from him?

Fired coaches usually do not get exit interviews. Bylsma didn't get one.

 

[ColePens]

1k posts... time to just move on from this.

 

[HandshakeLine]

1k posts... time to just move on from this.

Can we ever REALLY move on, though?

 

[joeyjake5]

Right. And this even has some plausible deniability with the coaching change too, if they're shopping him. The Pens can claim (and rightly) they're just trying to get a look at their roster with the new HC.

I really do think that both Scuderi and Kunitz will have some value down the stretch. Whether or not we can utilize that with their NTCs is a different question.

IF scuds and kunitz were on another team with their age, contracts and production would you trade for them. Your answer better be no. I repeat, the pens are stuck with these gems.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

1k posts... time to just move on from this.

To a Mike Sullivan thread?