Penguins/NHL
The Pittsburgh Penguins have agreed to a four year extension with head coach Mike Sullivan, the team announced today.
As Jim Rutherford publicly continued to downplay the importance of extending Sullivan multiple times this off-season, Rutherford and the organization have now gone all-in on Sullivan.
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The four year extension begins at the conclusion of the 2019-2020 season and Sullivan is now under contract through the 2023-2024 season.
Sullivan who is believed to make around $2.75 million on his current contract, is set to enter this season as the 12th highest paid coach in the NHL.
The long-term commitment to Sullivan, who is now under contract for the next five seasons, is another win for Sullivan as the organization continues to try to dictate a roster around Sullivan’s belief of building a team with gritty 2-way players for next season. A belief that multiple 30-40 point players will win out over the 80-90 points Phil Kessel could get them on a yearly basis.
Sullivan had long been the primary driving force in the Penguins desire to trade Phil Kessel for almost two years now, which finally happened last week.
“Mike has done a great job delivering four, 100-plus point seasons with our team,” Jim Rutherford said in a released statement. “To win back-to-back Cups in this era speaks volumes of him as a coach. His instincts in managing the inter-workings of our team both on and off the ice has been impressive.”
What the extension does is end a big distraction and make a statement to the current group that this is Mike Sullivan’s team for the foreseeable future. It was always viewed around the league as an odd situation if Sullivan didn’t at least get the security of a 1-2 year extension.
In a league where coaches come and go and despite questions emerging that Sullivan started to lose the room last year, the four year extension is certainly the ultimate message from the organization they are all-in on Mike Sullivan during this window the team believes they still have with Sidney Crosby. [/hide]
I think Sam(e) has some sand in his vaginaa.
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The Montreal Canadians have reportedly sent an offer sheet Megan Rapinoe.
She’ll decline. Just like she did Trump’s invite.
She’ll be face deep in a 69 with another man.
Funny but habs have more chance to make the playoffs this year then the penguins. Last year penguins made the most changes during the season yet were swept. Now with mattaa gone chubby gone the team is weaker unless they make more changes
So now that Kessel is gone they are weaker but all you did was complain about how terrible he was and that he should have been traded. Shocking how you flip flop. And Maatta being gone is a blessing. He regressed every season.
What I’m saying is they didn’t replace them properly yet. Kessel is Garbage but they replaced him with another Garbage that will play good this year so he gets a contract and then go vacation mode
Pens are worse because they got garbage. But the garbage will play good this year? Youre all over the place. Let’s remember this when As I Said Sam comes out around late October.
Lol Sam now arguing that the Pens are weaker without Kessel
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Pens should move Murray for Price. Throw in Jack Johnson and Robert Dome to make the cap hit work
But…but…but. Price Sucksss. Murray has 2 cups. Just ask to our genius and Stan on this board
Its a joke Sam. Robert Dome retired many years ago. See what i mean by dangerously stupid?
All the more reason Sam would want him.
Or Kris Beech.
Throw in Jim Paek and you have a deal!
Point would rather be in Tampa than Montreal. Who wouldn’t?!?!
Since you are a genius I believe it
Hey genius tampax has about 5m space you think they would move the best player of the team. Your favorite player Johnson and his fraud contract
If Montreal offered him an offer sheet and he signed it and Tampa can not match it he would. But he already stated he does NOT want to go to Montreal. He likes Tampa. Duchene said no, you lost out on Aho and Point said no. Starting to see a trend here. I wonder when Price will pull a Roy? That would be classic!
He flat out said it.
dumb move. NHL coaches are a dime a dozen. the second they get annyoing get rid of them. any coach who thinks dominic simon should play with crosby doesn’t deserve a 5 year extention. this is the same scenario as when shero extended bylsma. what are the pens going to do when they start the season 7-35? as far as i’m concerned with malkin and letang back the pens are missing the playoffs. they are going to have have to fire rutherford and sullivan before his extention even kicks in. way to go
Whaaaaaaaaa! Dime a dozen… Thats why they are all winners right. JFC this is gold. We watched Dan hand over 5 years of this team and it only got worse when Johnston took the reigns. Suddenly a coach shows up that gets the job done and this fool is still pissed that the teams depth at wing is so shitty that his favourite players is stuck with offensive duds (ignoring the underlying stats that suggest some of those guys are just not nearly as bad as he likes to believe of course). Simon cant score, he dont belong on most… Read more »
He’s Sam level dumb. He wouldn’t have an income without a union.
what make you think this team is going to be better than getting swept out of the 1st round? they have 7 million tied up in the most overrated Dman in pens history and malkin could give a $hit less. 18 million in cap space spent on garbage players who already quit on the guy who just got a 5 year extention. yeah good luck with that.
You’re literally as stupid as Sam…. so you’re insight is fucken useless
BLOW IT UP!!!
“It’s all over people, we don’t have a prayer!” – Rev Lovejoy.
Another Yoda prediction that will be wrong again. Blow it up!
Kawhi Leonard turned down an offer sheet from the Montreal Canadians.
Well played my friend!
Congratulations to the only competent coach in Pittsburgh named mike
That’s how you GM https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/nhl/hockey-inside-out/what-the-puck-canadiens-moving-backwards-this-summer
Sammich…. whats this about Price and Weber expressing concerns with the direction the Habs have gone in?
Carey Price: “I do not want to wait. I just do not want to”, “We have a bright future with our hopes. But when I think about it, I see my career and the number of players who have come and gone. It’s good to have depth in your system, but for me personally, when I’m on the ice, it’s irrelevant until I see someone in our training. ” Shea Weber: we need to find a way to speed up the process. “Do I still have eight years left? No, probably not, “he said. LMMFAO, sammich your favourite team is… Read more »
Hey assholee I did say it when habs sign price by time he is 32 33 if he doesn’t win the Cup before even GM trades he him will go knock his door and ask for a trade. And trust be your mcdavid will do it too but before 32.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, fuck the Habs… love the excuse machine bro, you do you! Price and Weber can see the ship sinking yet… blah, blah, blah
“My McDavid” you literally seem to care more about the Oilers than you do this team. The only time his name comes up is when you discuss it. No one cares about Vancouver dude
Let’s hope your mcdavid schools Crosby again. When he was on the ice watching Crosby score the overtime goal as I’m typing I’m drooling over that memory time to go watch that on YouTube you may do the honor and share it here
https://youtu.be/OWfezTV9tZQ
https://youtu.be/6cDOuxYNMMI
Same old Sam(e), always deflecting when he is proven wrong time and time again.
“My McDavid” fuck you’re a moron
Pagnotta has told the world Point turned down an offer sheet from MTL LMMFAO. If that wasn’t bad enough that sams hero broke the story it was later confirmed by Elliot Freidman… the man whose ideas same borrows to sell as his own daily
He stated he wanted to stay in Tampa. You know, that shitholee that Sam(e) visited in his life. Strike two!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA… though for sure he was done here… got it from at least 3 key sources lol
I think Sully’s best moment was recognizing that Fleury will always be a choke artist. Going back to Murray as soon as he could in 2017 was a huge reason they went back to back. Look no further than the following year when Fleury choked away the Finals for Vegas against the Caps. That could have been the Pens if Sully didn’t very smartly turn to Murray.
At least fleury went to finals and played full season. Maybe just now scum sully being American just realized that he can only win with Murray in net when he uses him 20% in a season
Um, he did not play a full season that year. He had a concussion and Vegas had like 7 other goalies start. He also did not play a full season this past season either.
As Rod said, dude missed half the year then collapsed when it mattered… what a dumb fuckk. He was pretty average this year
Sully also did his best to trade fleury.
One thing I agree with sully minute chubby won Cup they shouldve traded him I guess average fans like tool dont see that way
Below average fans like Sam forget that, as soon as the Pens won the Cup with Kessel, they turned around and did it again with Kessel. So much stupid from one individual.
Clown 2 years ago was their second time. Go back bed fatso
Clown, “minute Chubby won Cup,” would have been 3 years ago. Then they won again. Youre very stupid Sam. So stupid you think youre smart. Thats a dangerous kind of stupid.
You said the minute he won the cup… that implies the first one which would make 3 years ago.
Rumors that Anaheim and the Kings may be interested in JJ. One can only hope!
Did he get raise also like DB only to be fired the following year and collect paychecks.
Good move
He is demanding…….but effective he must learn his players a bit better…when to push and when to give support….
The changes made seem to have been done so with Sullivans coaching style in mind. So for that reason I am curious as to how this season should look. I really hope the Kessel piece was a legit addition by subtraction and not just more lip service to dump a productive asset that has quirks too many dont seem to like.
Goodbye.
Awesome, this kills two birds with one stone!
He wont leave. He’s a drama queen.
He won’t. He thinks he knows about hockey, but his posts prove otherwise. The dude is simple.
Whats the opposite of Christmas? I mean you promised for the second straight year he would be gone by Christmas but…
Good riddance dummy. Wrong again, but that’s nothing new to you.
Go Signing