Confirmed with Link: Sully extended through 22-23 season

[Mr Jiggyfly]

Yes. A Cup is better than keeping your coach.

Besides, they won the division and lost a Game 7. It's not like they tanked without him.

They didn’t lock him up and cost themselves a legitimate chance at a repeat.

How many teams have switched coaches and won b2b cups? Pens and....?

 

[Andy99]

 

[pistolpete11]

They were definitely worse this year.

The Pens were definitely worse this year with Sullivan, too.

 

[pistolpete11]

They didn’t lock him up and cost themselves a legitimate chance at a repeat.

How many teams have switched coaches and won b2b cups? Pens and....?

How many teams have won b2b Cups? It was a long shot with Trotz, too.

 

[Turin]

The Pens were definitely worse this year with Sullivan, too.

Pens had more roster issues.

 

[Nakawick]

Heard Sully negotiated a no fire clause as well.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

How many teams have won b2b Cups? It was a long shot with Trotz, too.

Coaching doesn’t matter then? Because it does....

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

They didn’t lock him up and cost themselves a legitimate chance at a repeat.

As I just said, Trotz wasn’t wanted back and he knew it. They were going to go with Reirden no matter the outcome.

 

[Turin]

Ryan Wilson tho, he’s a great coach.

And maybe they are now, as Tanev met with both JR and Sully.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Starting to suspect you are Ryan Wilson. Always the pessimist and the only one who posts his stuff

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

Ryan Wilson tho, he’s a great coach.

Except not really.

 

[Andy99]

Starting to suspect you are Ryan Wilson. Always the pessimist and the only one who posts his stuff

When he’s right, he’s right and he says it right....when he’s wrong, he’s really wrong and he has a one track focus on analytics, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong about Johnson or Sullivan...and just for good measure since you like it so much...


HockeyBuzz.com - Ryan Wilson - For better or worse Mike Sullivan is just another coach

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I too would rather have tetanus than ebola.

ZAR scored at a 15 goal, 17 assist pace last season as a 3rd/4th liner with 60.3% D-zone starts. He was a +12.

Never understood why @ColePens and most of this board goes nuclear on the guy. He's totally fine, especially at his upcoming cap hit (I pray).

 

[Woodrow]

I think Sully is a good coach but I also thought he was nearing his expiry date with this team. At least if the Pens need a coaching change he shouldn't be out of work long unless his salary is astronomically high.

 

[Tom Hanks]

When he’s right, he’s right and he says it right....when he’s wrong, he’s really wrong and he has a one track focus on analytics, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong about Johnson or Sullivan...and just for good measure since you like it so much...


HockeyBuzz.com - Ryan Wilson - For better or worse Mike Sullivan is just another coach

I don’t read any of his articles anymore. He went right off the deep end a while back.

If he went to a screening of a movie called “Context” he’d be asking people what the movie was called because he can’t see it.

 

[ColePens]

ZAR scored at a 15 goal, 17 assist pace last season as a 3rd/4th liner with 60.3% D-zone starts. He was a +12.

Never understood why @ColePens and most of this board goes nuclear on the guy. He's totally fine, especially at his upcoming cap hit (I pray).

For the record i think ZAR is a good 4th liner. While he doesn't fit our system much at all, i do like him. I would just rather go massive speed/tenacity.

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

I don’t read any of his articles anymore. He went right off the deep end a while back.

If he went to a screening of a movie called “Context” he’d be asking people what the movie was called because he can’t see it.

You should read that article because it’s 100% correct.

 

[Pancakes]

Jesse likes the extension, and I personally trust his opinion more than RW

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

It’s a zero risk extension. It doesn’t mean anything other than “You'll be paid when we fire you.”

Doesn’t make any word Ryan said wrong.

 

[HandshakeLine]

God, I f***ing hate offseason.

 

[HandshakeLine]

It’s a zero risk extension. It doesn’t mean anything other than “You'll be paid when we fire you.”

Doesn’t make any word Ryan said wrong.

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of Sullivan as the head coach, this should always be in the back of everyone's mind.

 

[Tom Hanks]

You should read that article because it’s 100% correct.

Won’t be doing that and I get the JJ stuff but JJ played less later in the season and was a healthy scratch first playoff game. He got back in because Maatta was atrocious game 1.

Now the contextual part is your GM signs a guy for 5 years that’s going to be hard to move so you try and make it work. D man can take a little longer too adjust. He did have some good (or acceptable) stretches with Pettersson. We also had Schultz out for the most part Olli had a poor year and Riikola wasn’t great either.

I guess he wanted to give it a long shot to see if it would work. You pretty much can’t scratch a guy from the start that just signed 5 years (his start with the club was the worst he was here).

Was that a mistake? Probably. Was there good alternatives? Not really.

If JJ stays it should be a rule that he can only be on the ice with Hornqvist

Line Stats - Natural Stat Trick

 

[pistolpete11]

Coaching doesn’t matter then? Because it does....

Nice strawman.

No, you can't say the Caps blew their shot at winning b2B because Trotz left. The odds they win b2b even with Trotz is insanely low. There's a reason it only happens once every decade or so.

 

[Woodrow]

Sure Sully's usage of Jack Johnson sucked but it's JR fault for signing that scrub in the first place. Would be funny if JR canned Sully for playing his big defensive free agent signing too much.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

[MOD]

When I say accountability, I mean accountability and I don't play favourites. I go by performance and potential. I don't rest on my laurels of past success because it's in the past and it doesn't guarantee me a future if I act like that should be enough to keep me around.