RIP Dan Bylsma. Of course he'll have another job in 5 minutes, but........waiting for the announcement.
He's a horrible coach.
Tortorella, of all people, got another job after being fired by Rangers. So, I don't see why Bylsma shouldn't find one.
Well, GM Shero's out. Too bad. He was instrumental in building the team that won the 09 Cup.
I'll say it: Dumping Bylsma is damned short-sighted. Winning the Metro Division and having the 4th best regular season record in the league isnt a given even with the Pens talent when the team loses over 500 man games to injury. It smells more like a grass is always greener mentality.
But was terrible at picking good players at the draft and did that terrible Jordan Staal trade.
Yeah, the Staal trade wasn't good, but wasn't that as much a salary cap issue as anything?
It would've been tough to keep any player that good as a third or fourth line player indefinitely.
I thought it was that they wanted to get something from it because they offered Staal a nice fat contract and he turned it down because he wanted to go and play with his brother. So Shero made the trade rather than just keep him an extra year and have him leave for Free Agency and the Pens get nothing from it.
I understand why Shero did it, I just didn't agre with it at the time.
