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Things I wish Pensburgh was around for: Penguins hire Eddie Olczyk as head coach

We keep the walk down memory lane going on Pensburgh today when we rewind to June of 2003 when the Penguins moved Eddie Olczyk from up in the booth to behind the bench. Without any coaching experience and after only retiring from the NHL a few years before. Olczyk just so happened to be coaching his boss and owner of the team, Mario Lemieux. And just to make his tenure completely unforgettable, despite trying to considering how awful the team was, Edzo managed to survive the lockout and had the unbelievable job of molding Sidney Crosby to the NHL.