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The writing has been on the wall over the past two years & both parties will benefit from this. It was time. As for Kyle Dubas he pretty much inherited Ron Hextall’s team so now that a rebuild will be underway he’ll be able to shape the type of team that he wants. His hands were pretty much tied since he was hired due to promises he had made in order to get the job(s) he was hired for & keeping Mike Sullivan for one more season was part of the agreement. Sullivan was supposed to be fired two years ago by then GM Ron Hextall (who never liked Sullivan & had inherited from previous GM Jim Rutherford) but his job was saved when Hextall got fired instead. Usually when a new GM is hired he likely will want to bring along his own coach. That’s normal. But some coaches often have more than a year left on their contracts & that’s why we often see such coaches hanging on to their jobs for another season or so. Sullivan’s competency isn’t being questioned here. It’s just that the time has finally come for Dubas to hire his own coach & shape the rebuild his own way.
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I don't think this is the whole story, and nothing I read in the Pittsburgh media supports your hypothesis. One report indicates Sullivan was fired because he gave Dubas a list of "non-negotiable demands", which I suspect was related to personnel decisions:
www.si.com

Penguins HC Fired for Non-Negotiable Demands

The Pittsburgh Penguins fired head coach Mike Sullivan after nearly a decade behind the bench. Sullivan exits the club as the second-longest tenured coach in th
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I am viewing the firing more symbolically than you are, and as yet another manifestation of the GM/Coach power dynamic portrayed so terrfically in the film "Draft Day." Although the film captures the tension between an NFL GM played by Kevin Costner and a coach played by Denis Leary, the film's portrayal of that nherent tension over player personnel decisions translates to all sports.

It also reminds me of the book written by Phil Esposito about his days as the GM of the NY Rangers. In the book, he rips some of the coaches who served under him, most notably Michel Bergeron. Among many, many other criticisms, Esposito accused Bergeron of blatant prejudice in favor of French Canadian players and against Anglo players. He even claimed he acquired some aging French Canadian players in order to appease Bergeron, and then they absolutely sucked when they came to the Rangers. Esposito also said he and Bergeron clashed over other personnel decisions, Bergeron always favoring the French Canadian player over the Anglo player, where it came down to such a choice. Esposito ultimately fired Bergeron for insubordination based on comments Bergeron made to the NY press.

I am suspecting that the deterioration in the Sullivan-Dubas relationship had more to do with disagreements on personnel and less to do with Dubas just wanting his own coach. If he really was his "own man" as you claim he would have hired a new coach from day 1. Instead, he signed up for a power struggle he was not going to win, and finally realized that. When Sullivan did not win with the players he was given and squawked about it, he was shown the door. To me, its symbolic of many NHL firings.

Did Sullivan hope to get fired by submitting the list of non-negotiable demands? The reports I read indicated he wanted to stay with the Penguins and he expected Dubas to do what he asked for.
 
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