The first day of the low season of the Rangers arrived and left without any news of the fate of the coaching staff in the future.
There has been a strong belief that Chief coach Peter Laviolette would not survive the disaster that was this 2024-25 season.
He thought there was no news about the Blueshirts issue on Friday, multiple coaches around the NHL approached their status with their current teams that could an effect on the tasks of the organization’s search shoulders.
The president and general manager of the Rangers, Chris Dury, and the former chief coach of the penguins, Mike Sullivan, have a pre -existing relationship.
Not only are students from the University of Boston, the two were American teammates in the 1997 World Championship. Dury also played with Sullivan, who was assistant to the Rangers, during his last two seasons playing at the NHL in 2009-10 and 2010-11.
They gathered in the confrontation of the 4 NHL nations with the US team., With Sullivan serving as a chief coach and Dury as assistant to general manager of Bill Guerin.
If Sullivan had the leg available in May 2023, when Dury sought to replace Gerard Gallant, there is no doubt that it would be the no. 1 option.
By signing an extension of three years with Pittsburgh in 2022, Sullivan told The Post that summer that he was in the long term with the penguins.
On Friday on the day of the Penguins rupture, Sullivan shared a feeling similar to the presumable to clarify the record and avoid speculation out of season again.
“My intentions are being the chief coach moving forward,” he told reporters.
At the end of Sullivan’s tenth season with penguins, Pittsburgh has not been able to qualify for the playoffs for three consecutive years.
However, the strong relationship between Sullivan and Captain Sidney Crosby is well known, which makes the immediate departure of the first look unlikely.
After the Canucks suffered a second round out in the playoffs last season before the postseason completely this season, Rick Tocchet is another chief currently used that could be available.
He asked blank if he wanted to stay in Vancouver, the 61 -year -old Tocchet was Frank.
“Or for the course, you want to return here, but there is a process you have to pass, right?” Tocchet told journalists on Friday. “Throughout the year, the port breathed. Duration free time, I was in 4 nations [as an assistant coach for Team Canada]. You are trying to take this team to the playoffs, dealing with all that. So I haven’t really thought about myself. I know people don’t believe that. Of course, at night, you think: “Hey, what am I going to do?” You think of those thoughts. I have to breathe and I think that out of respect on both sides you have to go through the process. You have to. I understand, I know that the next question is: “Well, how long do you need?”
“I am not an idiot, I cannot sit on the couch. I will decide when I decide. I mean, obviously, there is a period of time. But at this time, for me, there is a process that crosses [president and hockey operations] Jim [Rutherford] and [general manager] Patrician [Allvin]. There is really where it is. ”
