Please pardon the interruption. After posting the second part of my State of the Penguins I saw a very interesting article from Dan Kingarski. According to Kingarski, a call precipitated the firings of Jacques Martin, Sergei Gonchar, and Mark Recchi. The first thing that struck me was the following quote;
“Our source, who was not on the call, paraphrased the conversation as the Penguins hockey operations were ‘allowed’ to keep head coach Mike Sullivan, but the others would not be back.”
The stress on the word ‘allowed’ was what caught my attention.