Penguins Off-Season Thread: You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl

[WheresRamziAbid]

Yeah outside of awful usage of young players, stubbornness of the first line staying together in the playoffs 3yrs in a row with awful results. Beefing with players. Causing the whole Kessel issue.

Not really adapting and evolving the Pens system once his assistant Tocchet left. He likely is a good coach but he's good when Tocchet is his right hand man. A collaboration.

Good god the amount of nonsense.

Sullivan has quite a track record of playing young players and what exactly did he cause with Kessel? He made him suck ass all of a sudden?

 

[Pens x]

Fire Sully this, and Sleepy that. Yea sure, but moaning about it 24/7 won't do anything and makes for increasingly dull discussion. So I like to speculate on things that are legitimately likely, like us resigning RT as an assistant.

What could/would Sully and Tocc do with this current roster, was it all Sid and Geno and Kessel or did Tocc really have the dog whisperer quality to him when it comes to our squad

For what it' worth, who would you replace Sully with right this instant? short of Gallant. Because wanting Sully fired is one thing, actually having a good idea about who can give us what we need is another and tbh idk who that'd be rn

Literally anyone but Hakstol or Mike Johnston. I would give Lambert the job since we can’t beat Trotz. Boudreau. Anyone not named Mike Sullivan. Go back over the last 3 years of head coaches hired, give me 80% of them over post 2017 Sully.

Sorry, but it’s unacceptable to keep him employed for another day. It’s like Lafferty, what more does Sully need to show you in the playoffs to show you we need a new coach?

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Literally anyone but Hakstol or Mike Johnston. I would give Lambert the job since we can’t beat Trotz. Boudreau. Anyone not named Mike Sullivan. Go back over the last 3 years of head coaches hired, give me 80% of them over post 2017 Sully.

Lol i'd want to give Boudreau a go if it were earlier in Sid and Geno's career, idk if they can handle his offensive systems or speedy style now. Though im going off his style in WSH, havent really watched him much elsewhere

 

[OtherThingsILike]

It's official!

 

[Pens x]

It's official!

Ughhh. I love the olympics and rooting for USA. He’s going to ruin it for me.

 

[LOGiK]

I definitely think Mike should. It'll be fun. For some.


There's a very small group of American coaches.

Sullivan.
Hynes
Eakins
Laviolette
Blashill
Granato
Quenneville is dual.

It's a sad sack list right there mate. I don't care that he coaches. I care that the ownership sees him coach and make the same mistakes and maybe finally get a perspective on why they need to move on.

Is that a burn on torts?

He'd make a great olympic coach =]

 

[Pancakes]

No, Geno produces in the playoffs when healthy. I’m not sure I’d put Jake on an Olympic roster though.

If you're going to judge every player or coach on the basis of their playoff performance that's going to be a pretty fluid conversation year to year.

The playoffs are such a matchup and luck dependent crapshoot. They're a small sample size. The best team only wins the Cup like 20% of the time. Judging players and coaches solely on their performance there is a foolish venture.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Is that a burn on torts?

He'd make a great olympic coach =]

Torts is on the EI line.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Sid looking a little less bulky than he normally does. Tbh I had wondered if it'd be a good idea for him to trim some fat/muscle a bit as he gets older to help maximize his speed and agility

 

[Gurglesons]

Sid looking a little less bulky than he normally does. Tbh I had wondered if it'd be a good idea for him to trim some fat/muscle a bit as he gets older to help maximize his speed and agility

How sweet would it be if we get MacK in UFA.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

How sweet would it be if we get MacK in UFA.

 

[DesertedPenguin]

Not sure if these have been shared, but the Penguins have been doing weekly video interviews with a few Penguins. They're more relaxed, softball questions, designed to showcase some personality. Even Sullivan is more relaxed and lets his personality out.

Kapanen:


Tanev (pre-expansion draft):


Blueger:


Sullivan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnnhEPCS5t4

 

[EightyOne]

Sid didn't trim

He's just old and frail now

Lol

 

[Ignatius]

Happy 35th Birthday to our Evgeni Malkin

 

[heysmilinstrange]

Per Instagram, it seems like Guentzel got married today.

 

[Pens x]

Per Instagram, it seems like Guentzel got married today.

I’m glad his shoulder help up enough to get married.

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

Sullivan's a great coach, I'm sure Team USA will do well. If they don't, coaching will be low on the list of reasons why. Once again the hyenas on this board are out in force.

 

[Pens x]

Sullivan's a great coach, I'm sure Team USA will do well. If they don't, coaching will be low on the list of reasons why. Once again the hyenas on this board are out in force.

He was a great coach 4 years ago. I hope to god he has no say in the roster construction. American coaching is in a sad state if the current version of Mike Sullivan was the best that you can do.

 

[LOGiK]

He was a great coach 4 years ago. I hope to god he has no say in the roster construction. American coaching is in a sad state if the current version of Mike Sullivan was the best that you can do.

If you think it' s sad now what did you think when disco was named olympic coach?

 

[Pens x]

If you think it' s sad now what did you think when disco was named olympic coach?

I feel identical as I did the year Bylsma was going to coach - it’s an opportunity for the world to see that Sully kind of sucks.

 

[heysmilinstrange]

I’m glad his shoulder help up enough to get married.

It costs you nothing to be less miserable.

 

[SEALBound]

didn’t Bylsma get fired like 4 months or so after he was named to the same lol? …. We can hope for the same result…

When asked why he got fired, Bylsma gets to say "I hitched my wagon to Craig Adams and Tanner Glass". Yesh. Wonder what Mike Sullivan would say?

In the ultimate slap in the face, I can't wait until Sullivan goes out and coaches like he did in 2016, switches up lines, makes in-game changes, and leads US to gold...then comes back and reverts to his old ways en route to a first-round exit.

 

[LOGiK]

When asked why he got fired, Bylsma gets to say "I hitched my wagon to Craig Adams and Tanner Glass". Yesh. Wonder what Mike Sullivan would say?

In the ultimate slap in the face, I can't wait until Sullivan goes out and coaches like he did in 2016, switches up lines, makes in-game changes, and leads US to gold...then comes back and reverts to his old ways en route to a first-round exit.

I miss old sullivan...
why man, why!

 

[larueskee]

Sullivan was a good coach before he got a big head. He thought it was because of him and not the players assembled that he won those 2 cups. He was obviously wrong.

 

[Andy99]

Sullivan was a good coach before he got a big head. He thought it was because of him and not the players assembled that he won those 2 cups. He was obviously wrong.

he was a good coach until he stopped trying things and taking risks, not only with the personnel but the strategy…I don’t know if it was from a big head or he started listening to too many voices, but it doesn’t matter..he needs to go for this team to move forward