Fitzgerald leaves coaching staff; named Assistant to the General Manager

11:02am - Friday, July 3rd, 2009 by DePaoli

Tom Fitzgerald will be leaving the Penguins coaching staff and the Penguins have opened up a new position for him naming him the assistant to the General Manager.

Mike Yeo will remain with the coaching staff.

Dan MacKinnon has been promoted to Director of Player Personnel.

MacKinnon, meanwhile, becomes Director of Player Personnel and will oversee all aspects of the Penguins’ professional scouting operation in North America and Europe.

He also will work closely with Director of Amateur Scouting Jay Heinbuck to ensure that the Penguins have a comprehensive scouting network at all levels of hockey. MacKinnon will be entering his fourth season with the Penguins after spending six years in the scouting department of the Nashville Predators.

Comments

Curious to see who Bylsma/Shero bring in. Veteran or young guy?

07/03/2009 11:11am

deesh138

So, does Yeo have naked pictures of Shero or what? He has to have some sort of odd leverage. The rest of the coaching staff has been nuked around him, yet he has survived. He has possibly to most skill of any power play in the NHL to work with.. and it has been ugly and sub-par at best under him. The Penguins NEED an AMAZING pp to keep teams like the Flyers from playing like goons. Fix it.

07/03/2009 11:13am

Carnauerff

After they fired MT, it was said that the players really like Yeo. I don't know why he's still here tho

07/03/2009 11:30am

mstartari

It was good cop bad cop with Yeo. I think Yeo threw Coach T under the bus, hence why he is still here.

07/03/2009 5:29pm

CBauerjr

Lets see who is the staff when camp begins. As for Fitzy I think we will miss his fire on the bench. He seemed to have the same fire as a coach that he had as a player. It seemed to be in balance with Coach Dans laid back style. As for Yeo I think the pictures he has have to go much higher than Ray ......That can be the only reason......

07/04/2009 6:29pm