{"id":67150,"date":"2015-12-12T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67150"},"modified":"2025-01-13T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:04:49","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-fire-head-coach-mike-johnston-and-assistant-gary-agnew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/12\/pittsburgh-penguins-fire-head-coach-mike-johnston-and-assistant-gary-agnew\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins fire head coach Mike Johnston and assistant Gary Agnew"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67151\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GIimBuv.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67151\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GIimBuv.png\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Penguins former head coach Mike Johnston (Photo from Johnston's official Twitter account)\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GIimBuv.png 256w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GIimBuv-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pittsburgh Penguins former head coach Mike Johnston (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeJohnstonHC\" target=\"_blank\">Johnston&#8217;s official Twitter account<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2013 The Pittsburgh Penguins fired head coach Mike Johnston on Saturday and replaced him with Mike Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt it was time for a coaching change because our team has underachieved,\u201d general manager Jim Rutherford said in a release. \u201cOur expectations are much higher with this group of players.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy diflucan online <a href=\"https:\/\/medilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png\/diflucan.html\">https:\/\/medilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png\/diflucan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Sullivan has been a head coach and an assistant coach in the NHL and we\u2019ve been very fortunate to have him with our AHL club this season. He\u2019s done an outstanding job in Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton and he\u2019s ready to step in.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy mounjaro online <a href=\"https:\/\/medilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png\/mounjaro.html\">https:\/\/medilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png\/mounjaro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Entering play Saturday, the Penguins were tied for eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings with 33 points. They were fifth in the Atlantic Division with a 15-10-3 record.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston was in his second season behind the bench after Rutherford hired him from the Western Hockey League&#8217;s Portland Winterhawks.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old Sullivan was in his first season as head coach with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton and led the AHL club to an 18-5 record.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy spiriva inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/medilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png\/spiriva-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/medilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png\/spiriva-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Gary Agnew was also relieved of his duties as part of the overhaul. Longtime NHL coach Jacques Martin was promoted to assistant coach, joining Rick Tocchet.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins\u2019 next game is Monday night against the Washington Capitals at CONSOL Energy Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2013 The Pittsburgh Penguins fired head coach Mike Johnston on Saturday and replaced him with Mike Sullivan. \u201cI felt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[9636],"class_list":["post-67150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cp","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283302,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67150\/revisions\/283302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}