[News] Pens name Jim Rutherford GM, Fire Dan Bylsma. Presser 11AM MT

[DeluxeMoustache]

Scott Howson was 1 for 6 and now is with the Oil, no? Although not GM there, he is on his way to an extended record of no goodness

[SHOGUN]

I think we're so lucky to have a guy like Pascall in the Flames organization.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Anduril

Rutherford has also said that he didn't speak to Blysma at all in the 6 hours they were 'working together'. Call came from higher up.

Yeah. Pretty messed up and although Blysma still has opportunity to get on with another team that's kind of spiteful IMO as it appears that ESPN blog was right.

[FAN]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

The Penguins position is the only time I have ever heard he's been offered anything. He's interviewed in the past for a small handful of jobs but I don't recall him even being on a short list and certainly not offered the job.

It has been reported that he interviewed for the Wild and Canadiens job. I would consider that as making the short list.

[FAN]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I read a blog in ESPN after it was announced that Shero was fired that Blysma was essentially done and they only were holding on to him to keep him from getting hired by another team insinuating there was some spite involved. Sounds like the Penguins are kind of a mess internally. I'm sure he will be interviewing with the Panthers and Canucks shortly.

Most people thought that Blysma was done, but I don't buy into this whole spite conspiracy theory given only two coaching jobs have went (Nashville and Washington). And if the Pens really prevented Washington from hiring Blysma that's not a bad move either. The Nashville job is the only job that the Pens might have prevented Blysma from getting.

Blysma is a considered a respected coach and I don't see anything wrong with leaving the choice up to the new GM. And they made the decision quickly as soon as the GM was hired.

Originally Posted by Anduril

Rutherford has also said that he didn't speak to Blysma at all in the 6 hours they were 'working together'. Call came from higher up.

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Yeah. Pretty messed up and although Blysma still has opportunity to get on with another team that's kind of spiteful IMO as it appears that ESPN blog was right.

I don't see how Rutherford not having talked to Blysma has any relevance. Rutherford has been in this league a long time and knows people. He doesn't have to talk to Blysma to form an impression of him, just like Burke didn't need to interview anyone else for him to know Treliving is his guy.

The most interesting part to me is that the Pens were talking contract terms with McGuire and McGuire wanted a 5 year contract. I guess the Penguins really didn't want to go beyond 3 years and chose to go in another direction.

[sureLoss]

Bylsma got a job!

Greg Wyshynski @wyshynski
Dan Bylsma hired by ... NHL Network as a studio analyst for the Stanley Cup Final #penguins

[sureLoss]

McGuire pretty much confirms that it was term that prevented him from getting the job:

http://proxy.autopod.ca/podcasts/chu...%2C%202014.mp3

"I don't believe a person in my position that has 7 years left on a contract with NBC, should take a lesser term that most General Managers going into a job would want. So most people going into a job like that would want 5 years, maybe you could compromise to 4. ... I think stability of building a program requires long term commitment from both sides. I wasn't prepared, and I don't think they were prepared to go long and I wasn't prepared to go short."

[Flabbibulin]

Yikes, Al Morganti just said on 960 something along the lines of the Pens hiring Mcguire would have been the dumbest and worst decision in the history of hockey.

[SuperMatt18]

Morganti also ripped Blysma, called him a terrible coach and said he would advise any team not to hire Blysma.