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    Pittsburgh Penguins Thread

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    "All those rumors last week about everyone's favorite NHL-player's-midget-team-coach-knower being in the running for the Penguins GM job seem to have been pretty well-founded, given the amount of discussion about it early this week. And because McGuire himself seemingly won't stop talking about it.

     

    Darren Dreger talked about it on a few shows, but that's to be expected. In three separate media appearances — two radio hits and an NBC conference call — on Tuesday, though, McGuire confirmed that he was a candidate and that he'd interviewed twice and that he wasn't sure if he was in the running but he's not-NOT in the running you know?

     

    Now, leaving aside that this would be a really great development for the NBC national television, we have to keep in mind that when a normal general manager candidate is up for a job, he does not tell everyone who will listen how far along in the process he is, like a 7-year-old who just saw "X-Men" and wants to tell you about in great detail for 20 minutes no matter how many times you say, “Uh huh.”

     

    Which tells you that he either can't help himself and is hurting his chances of getting the job, or he knows he's not going to get it because oh my god can you imagine Pierre McGuire running your NHL team?"

     

    buahahha

    Pittsburgh Penguins Thread

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    He isn't a penny stock or Alex Ovechkin, a significant up or down is the most unlikely events, even for an uncertain hire like McGuire. The much more likely scenario would be for some learning curve, where results are neither hugely positive or negative, with any signfiicant up or downswings being felt over the long-term.

     

    He could make a string of terrible trades -- eg Malkin for Double Dion -- and burn and crash. Or he could draft decently and make necessary tweaks.

    Pittsburgh Penguins Thread

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    To be fair most of the criticism of McGuire around Hartford is his smarmy attitude and how it lost the players in the room as a coach (and only being in Ottawa for only 2 months because it was an expansion team gong show). However, if I was a player fighting in the trenches I would have no problem hating is guts as well.

     

    But he won't be coach, it's a GM position. Seems like you are balancing his absolute dedication to the game, his contacts around the league, and encyclopedic knowledge versus his pita shit grinning, his love affair with certain players (which means he will probably be taken advantage like a newb joining his first keeper league), and loss of 'insider' info.

     

    He makes for a great interview every morning on TSN1200 but seems like the local guys do most of the heavy lifting and he just adds his 2 cents. While Pierre brings good into it's hard to get a great feel on how he would do without the support structure. ie: I think if he was serious about being a GM he would be better off being groomed for it, as an ass-gm or something.

    Off Off Topic: Cool Toronto People's Thread

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    I think the people that Wayne is talking about are able bodied people who can get a minimum wage job but choose not to...They get social assistance and they work a cash job to screw the taxpayers ..THIS is wrong...

     

    Given how low the minimum wage is, the terrible working conditions, etc... are you really all that surprised that anyone without strong willpower would rather be on social assistance?

    Pittsburgh Penguins Thread

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    "Lemieux: The grit, the character. Even on the special teams, you’ve got to have some guys in the playoffs with grit, with character, as well as speed.

    DK: Now, you always had that around you, that grit and character. No matter who you had to tick off, you made sure you had it."

     

    Jason York had a decent point this morning -- there's no Patrick Kane to Crosby's Captain Serious. The one year that the won the Cup, Billy Guerin was there in that role to be the "court jester" keeping everyone light and not clutching their sticks under the pressure. They keep on talking about grit and character but was that really something missing from the Penguins?

    Pittsburgh Penguins Thread

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    This has to be a pretty rare occurrence. Firing the GM and possibly retaining the coach. I have no evidence to back this up but I would have to guess the opposite is more likely to happen.

     

    Ya, usually the GM is allowed to go through a few coaches before he is turfed. Happens now and then but the coach is on a very short leash because he isn't the GM's "guy".

    Pittsburgh Penguins Thread

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    He's a complete idiot.

     

    Not that he may not be wrong here, but he's a complete idiot.

     

    TSN1200 floated the idea that since the 2009 Stanley Cup victory, given that the east has basically only 2 teams - Penguins & Bruins, Pittsburgh has been one of the most disappointing teams in the playoffs. And if they hadn't won that cup* we'd probably lump them with Washington.

     

    * kind of silly what-if because they did but whatever

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