“If I’m Team USA general manager Stan Bowman, my choice to coach in Beijing — if there is NHL involvement [at the Olympics] in China, and that’s still to be finalized — would be Pittsburgh’s Mike Sullivan … Sullivan is on the long list of those with coach of the year credentials this season. The others: Rick Tocchet in Arizona; Rod Brind’Amour in Carolina; Sheldon Keefe in Toronto; Dean Evason in Minnesota; Joel Quenneville in Florida; Barry Trotz, again, every year on Long Island. That’s seven strong candidates and only three can be finalists.”
The Pittsburgh Penguins have had anything but an easy ride this season. There were turns left and right with front office shakeups and injuries to key players. Questions of whether the tenures of veterans Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin were up became as loud as ever.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have been on a quest to win at least one more Stanley Cup with Sidney Crosby. It has been a revolving door on his line as they try to figure it out.
Let’s be brutally honest with each other. At some point in the last eight months, everyone has wondered about Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan and his shelf life as the Penguins bench boss.
With shootouts and three-on-three overtime, wins may become easier to accumulate than generations past when ties were possible. However, Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan still joined an elite coaching fraternity on Thursday night when the Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-2 at Key Bank Arena.
When the dust settles, and the Sidney Crosby—Evgeni Malkin era comes to an end, December 12, 2015 should be a day that is remembered for a franchise-altering change.
Since the Pittsburgh Penguins entered the league along with six other franchises back in 1967 — one of them being their in-state rival Philadelphia Flyers — the organization has been writing a rather rich chapter for the history books.
Early Tuesday morning, the Washington Capitals announced they had hired Peter Laviolette as their next head coach. An all-to familiar face to the city of Philadelphia, Lavy now becomes the enemy.
After the Penguins opted not to renew the contracts of Jacques Martin, Mark Recchi and Sergei Gonchar, the search for new assistant coaches began immediately.
What’s it like when NHL bench bosses catch up in the off-season? See the comradery between our coaches when they’re not battling it out behind the bench.
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