THERRIEN FIRED!!!

The Penguins have gone Donald Trump on their head coach. The Penguins, who are currently in 10th place in the Eastern Conference and 5 points out of the 8th and final playoff spot have fired Michel Therrien.

GM Ray Shero said, "We believe we need a change in direction and, with 25 games remaining in the regular season, our goal remains to finish strong and qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs." There is so much parody in the NHL these days. Less than one year ago the Penguins were in the Stanley Cup Finals and fans were outraged the Therrien did not win the Coach of the Year award. Now he gets fired for an underachieving team who is still two games over .500.

Hmm...if the Pens fired Therrien for having his club only two games over .500, can you imagine the string of coaches the Pirates would be going through. I mean, they would go through more coaches than most people go through clean underwear...

Anyway, back to reality, and that is Therrien is out and Dan Blysma is in. Blysma had got the promotion from the Wilkes-Barre Baby Penguins.

Now understand that this firing wasn't solely because of bad coaching from Therrien rather the Penguins front office trying to light some sort of fire under the team to propel them into the post-season.