Penguins/NHL
The mood surrounding a Jake Guentzel possible return to Pittsburgh has gone from fantasy land and no way a month ago to now don’t rule it out?……..
Something has changed in the last couple weeks where word is buzzing around the league the Hurricanes brass who had initiated extension talks with Guentzel prior to the postseason starting and have been cautiously optimistic of sign him on a 5-6 year deal, have intel that Pittsburgh after never making a legitimate effort to resign Guentzel, plan To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
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Jason Zucker in returning to Pittsburgh this past Monday expressed disappointment he never got a phone call from the Penguins. Zucker not being resigned was a case of a new General Manager coming in and believing you had to change the team somewhere and just couldn’t validate bringing everyone back even when the market was weak for Zucker. Pittsburgh never got involved.
— Mike Sullivan has been given full authority on whether he wants to bring his coaching staff back or not. It’s going to be his call when it comes to the Top-2 Assistants. There will be no push from the GM to remove either assistant. Todd Reirden has earned high marks inside the organization for his work with Ryan Shea late in the season and Reirden is said to have been become a positive buffer between Erik Karlsson and the To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
[hide] “Everyone that’s in place here is in place because I’ve either brought them here or have elected to keep them here,” GM Kyle Dubas said Friday of the staff. “What I say about the coaching staff is the amount of work that all of them respectively put in throughout the year, their efforts, their push to change and evaluate the way we were playing, especially when it wasn’t going well. Todd, Mike, Ty, Andy, Madison & CJ, they were unrelenting in their push and quest to try to bring us back. It wasn’t for a lack of effort on their part at all.” [/hide]
Could we see a coaching staff change later in the summer?
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