Confirmed with Link: Mike Johnston HC, Tocchet AC, Martin ??|Penguins Hire Headless Body of Gary Agnew

[Speaking Moistly]

Shelly Anderson ‏@pgshelly
Talked to Rick Tocchet this a.m. for a Sunday feature. #Penguins fans are going to love what the team's new assistant had to say.

Top 6 wingers? Youth getting a real chance? Adams went missing? Free stuff?!?! Scuderi and Dupuis are gone?!?!?! Structure and discipline?

 

[ObsessedCreative*]

No freakin' kidding. From the media thread:

http://970espn.com/media/podcast-the-david-todd-show-David_Todd/david-with-rob-rossi-62514-24951621/

Omfggggg hearing him talk with content & tone of his voice is down-right disturbing, like he should be monitored because I wouldn't be shocked to soon d him on a tower with a gun... Wow this is disturbing.

"Simone Despre isn't any good... " WOWOWOWWWWW

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Top 6 wingers? Youth getting a real chance? Adams went missing? Free stuff?!?! Scuderi and Dupuis are gone?!?!?! Structure and discipline?

How are Scuderi and Dupuis gone?

A trade I don'y know about?

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

Top 6 wingers? Youth getting a real chance? Adams went missing? Free stuff?!?! Scuderi and Dupuis are gone?!?!?! Structure and discipline?

We're all getting new cars

 

[TheSniper26]

Omfggggg hearing him talk with content & tone of his voice is down-right disturbing, like he should be monitored because I wouldn't be shocked to soon d him on a tower with a gun... Wow this is disturbing.

"Simone Despre isn't any good... " WOWOWOWWWWW

Sounds to me like the death rattle of a reporter that lost any "in" he might have had with the team.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

Sounds to me like the death rattle of a reporter that lost any "in" he might have had with the team.

Didn't he say it was "soul crushing?"

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

Anyone heard anything about Green?

He sure is taking his time.

 

[IcedCapp]

Anyone heard anything about Green?

He sure is taking his time.

he was just given permission by the Canucks today AFAIK

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

he was just given permission by the Canucks today AFAIK

Oh, I assumed that they already gave permission.

So we basically publicly offered him the job when we didn't have permission to talk to him?

 

[IcedCapp]

Oh, I assumed that they already gave permission.

So we basically publicly offered him the job when we didn't have permission to talk to him?

we weren't talking to him, we were talking AT him!

 

[Speaking Moistly]

So what does the board do if Green rejects the offer?

 

[IcedCapp]

So what does the board do if Green rejects the offer?

talk about how this team is an abject failure of a train wreck

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

we weren't talking to him, we were talking AT him!

That's my kind of negotiating

So what does the board do if Green rejects the offer?

Rutherford and Morehouse voodoo dolls

 

[Vujtek]

So what does the board do if Green rejects the offer?

I guess we're about to find out.

Travis Green staying in Utica is a huge deal for the Canucks org. Did a pretty great job last yr with a team that was remarkably undermanned

https://twitter.com/botchford/status/484121402505576448

 

[Jacob]

I'd rather get a former d-man as the 3rd assistant anyway.

 

[clefty]

I was just going to post that. Especially since we're probably going to be throwing our lot in with 3-4 guys in their early 20s as regulars this season.

I'd be looking into Luke Richardson, as I said last week.

 

[Jacob]

Him or Mark Morris, LA's AHL coach. He's done a good job with Voynov, Muzzin, & Martinez.

 

[Mister Hockey]

I'd rather get a former d-man as the 3rd assistant anyway.

Dave Burrows, the best ever playing sound dee.

 

[clefty]

Yeah...I think we'd be better off going for someone who's maybe played in the last 35 years and/or isn't 65 years old with zero coaching experience. I'm guessing.

 

[Waffle Fries]

The other assistant needs to be German.

 

[MeinerEiner]

The other assistant needs to be German.

What about Uwe Krupp?

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=21349

 

[Burgs]

Krupp has a good thing going in Cologne. Head coach and GM, made the DEL finals the past two years, it's his hometown and he is one of the few household names in German hockey. I doubt he's interested.

 

[Solution]

I'd rather get a former d-man as the 3rd assistant anyway.

What about Alain Nesreddine (sp.)? He is the assistant in WBS already. He knows the younger defensemen. He is a former player who has played in multiple systems before. He just seems like a very logical fit except for the fact that Johnston probably wants his own guy.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

Any news on the assistant front?

Is Nik Lidstrom interested in coaching?

 

[kodoshin]

So, it's Gary Agnew? Any opinions on this guy?