Ought to Mike Sullivan Be Frightened About His Job in Pittsburgh?
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet joined Sirius XM NHL Community Radio with Scott Laughlin and Gord Stellick and was requested concerning the Pittsburgh Penguins potential to make a training change and transfer on from Mike Sullivan.
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Gord Stellick: “Hey, fast final one, as a result of we began about Marc-Andre Fleury, after which we talked concerning the Penguins. So like, may there be a training change? I imply, what do you suppose could possibly be the primary domino that would occur in the event that they’re wanting in that path?”
Elliotte Friedman: “, I’ve puzzled about it merely since you do surprise, like, is it time for a brand new voice or something like this? I additionally like that they’re having quite a lot of breakdowns, particularly of their D zone, and I don’t suppose that’s solely on the coaches.
Like, I’ve seen a number of the targets the place you’re wanting like, there was one particularly in Vancouver with Erik Karlsson that you simply checked out and mentioned, Hey, like, you already know, you possibly can’t blame that on the coaches. However I do suppose the explanation I’d say it’s important to be ready for it Gordie, is the way in which it’s going proper now.
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I believe that there’s quite a bit there that would use a recent coat of paint proper now. You don’t need to overreact. Issues may change. However if you return to it, you type of have a look at it and say, this could possibly be fairly main. , clearly, commerce safety and issues like that play a really massive function in these sorts of conditions. Nevertheless it’s been occurring lengthy sufficient that despite the fact that this yr continues to be comparatively recent, you have a look at the final couple of years and say it’s extra than simply these final six video games.
So sure, I do suppose it’s important to keep watch over all choices. I believe one factor that the Penguins know is that in the event that they do make a training change, Mike Sullivan might be as unemployed for so long as Mike Sullivan desires to be unemployed. There have been groups earlier than who type of puzzled, is he going to be accessible?
And as soon as he’s accessible, there are groups which might be going to go at him. So I don’t suppose that Sullivan has something to fret about, however I do suppose that even that sure must be doubtlessly a part of the dialog.”
Scott Laughlin: “And Mike, after all, has his USA Hockey obligations. And as we all know, Kyle Dubas has that card to play. He’s not his man, so to talk, and inherited him alongside the way in which, when he moved from Toronto to Pit.”
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Friedman: “I don’t suppose he actually thinks like that, to be completely trustworthy.”
Laughlin: “proper. if and when that change does get made Friedge, if and when that change does get made, that’s what they’re going to say. Effectively, he was by no means by no means Kyle’s man, and now Kyle has the power, like each GM, to type of make one teaching change, no less than alongside the way in which.”
Friedman: “Yeah, that’s true. However, like, I don’t suppose Dubas wish to be trustworthy. If Dubas was going to do it final was going to do it that method? We most likely would have mentioned final summer season, when, when Keefe was accessible.”
Laughlin: “Thats an excellent level.”
