NHL Community: Elliotte Friedman on the teaching panorama after Mike Sullivan and the Pittsburgh Penguins parted methods. Will he find yourself with the New York Rangers? (interview was additionally earlier than Rick Tocchet left the Vancouver Canucks)
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Mike Rupp: “I need to ask you your opinion on simply the market on the market for coaches. Like did this, did which have any play on this as properly, so far as possibly simply being the proper timing for each side due to what groups have vacancies proper now for a coach like Mike Sullivan?”
Friedman: “Sure, I do assume, you understand, to begin with, I do assume that, that’s one factor that persons are very conscious of. Is that, the longer you maintain on to somebody, the much less of an opportunity they could must go the place they need to go.
Now I feel, as you guys had been speaking about, Mike Sullivan goes to have a whole lot of capability to select his routes. He had two extra years beneath contract, so he can afford to be choosy if he desires to be. However you understand the very least now, it provides Sullivan extra choices, and it permits groups to know that he’s on the market.
, one factor I do utterly agree with that every one of you guys had been speaking about, is that there may be some at the moment employed coaches who can be made a bit of nervous by this. I feel that, you understand, you’d in case you didn’t have a gap, however you had curiosity in Mike Sullivan, you’d a minimum of need to give it some thought and discover it.
So, I do assume that this despatched tremors by means of the teaching world right this moment, within the sense that now this very large identify is on the market. It undoubtedly adjustments the panorama.
However guys like, I received to let you know, I received it, I simply don’t know after the season they’d this 12 months, the Rangers aren’t on the forefront of this. Ensuring that no one goes to do a greater job of courting Mike Sullivan than they’re. In 2021 when Chris Drury received the job, you understand, earlier than he employed Gerard Galant, he made positive that Mike Sullivan was not going to be accessible.
They only labored collectively on the 4 Nations. And, you understand, I heard some criticism of Sullivan’s teaching over the previous few years. If anyone had any questions on him, watching him coach and put together and run that group at that match. I do know there have been a whole lot of nice gamers on that group. But it surely simply, I feel it ought to have reminded everyone, you understand, Sullivan is a hell of a coach.
And after the 12 months the Rangers simply had, I can’t think about them permitting anybody to outdo themselves within the pursuit of Sullivan right here, than the Rangers will.”
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