It didn’t take long for Mike Sullivan to impress Matt Murray.
A few minutes, tops.
“As soon as I met him, I thought, ‘This guy was born to be a hockey coach,’ ” Murray said of Sullivan, whom he met at the Penguins development camp last July. Sullivan was hired one month earlier to coach Wilkes-Barre/Scranton to oversee the organization’s top prospects, a group that at the time included Murray. “It showed with how he communicates, how he thinks the game and how he’s literally always trying to find ways to give us an advantage.”
One year ago Monday, Mike Johnston was fired, and Sullivan replaced him as head coach of the Penguins.