-Vintage Canuck- Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 @TSNBobMcKenzie: PIT will announce this morning GM Ray Shero and head coach Dan Bylsma have been fired. #TSN Update: Dan Bylsma not fired yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xWCMx Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Just got the alert from TSN. Kind of expected Bylsma but didn't think they'd can both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinkaruk_9 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Ray Shero...god damn. It's hard to choose between Shero and Benning for me tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I may be in the minority but I'd love to have both here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie 6m PIT assistant GM Jason Botterill likely to take over on an interim basis. Shero likely to immediately become frontrunner for GM job in WSH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outsiders Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 who drafts better? benning or shero? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Not really interested in either, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timberz21 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I'd still want Benning. Although, Shero has better contact/relationship throughout the league than Gillis, he seems like the same kind of guy, too passive. You can't really say he draft well, Crosby and Malkin were givens. I'd rather give Benning a chance, he's younger, wants to prove himself, we need change, not hold on to prior year succes, which is what I feel Shero would do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindChaser Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 To me... This only means Pitts will be pursuing Bennington also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFastOne21 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I am still for Benning as GM. I am however interested in Bylsma as coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Belfort Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I wouldn't be interested in Bylsma because he wasn't able to do anything in the playoffs with two generational talents on his team. I would want a coach who could make a team rise to a championship level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tas Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I'd still want Benning. Although, Shero has better contact/relationship throughout the league than Gillis, he seems like the same kind of guy, too passive. You can't really say he draft well, Crosby and Malkin were givens. I'd rather give Benning a chance, he's younger, wants to prove himself, we need change, not hold on to prior year succes, which is what I feel Shero would do. shero drafted neither crosby nor malkin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armada Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I don't want Bylsma. If you guys didn't like AV, you will dislike Bylsma even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 No to Shero! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I hope they hire Torts and Gillis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Botterill to Pitts, Shero to Was, Benning to Van Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 There goes Botterill from the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanGnome Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I wouldn't be interested in Bylsma because he wasn't able to do anything in the playoffs with two generational talents on his team. I would want a coach who could make a team rise to a championship level. Ray Shero kind of made it hard for Bylsma. When you have 47.36% tied up in 4 players (Malkin, Crosby, Letang and Fleury) and then another 32.62% tied up in secondary guys (Neal, Kunitz, Dupuis, Martin and Scuderi), it's hard to build the rest of the team. That essentially left 20.02% or $12.87M to pay 13 guys. Bylsma did the best he could given how handcuffed he was with who he had to work with. Effectively, Pittsburg had a good Top 6, but terrible bottom 6, defense and goaltending, and those weaknesses were well exposed this year. Crosby and Malkin didn't do their teams any favors by taking them to the bank, which should have prompted Shero to move Letang for other complimentary pieces to flesh out the roster rather than signing him to that massive contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Don't want Shero. I wouldn't mind Bylsma though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 So Fleury will be a buy out candidate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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