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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
Pittsburgh fire ice-hockey coach Eddie Olczyk
Pittsburgh have fired coach Eddie Olczyk and replaced him with former Montreal boss Michel Therrien.
Eddie Olczyk, a former team broadcaster and player, had no coaching experience at any level he was hired in 2003.
Eddie Olczyk is leaving following a run of eight losses in nine games
that dropped the Penguins' record to an NHL Eastern Conference-worst
8-6-17.
Eddie Olczyk is the first coach to be fired since the NHL resumed play
following its year-long labour dispute and he is the fourth Penguins
coach to lose his job in six seasons, joining Kevin Constantine, the
late Ivan Hlinka and Rick Kehoe.
Michel Therrien, 42, in charge of the Canadiens from 200-03, had
recently coached the Penguins' Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club to a
record AHL start.
Pressure on Eddie Olczyk to begin winning increased when the Penguins
won the NHL draft lottery in July and chose Sidney Crosby, considered
Canada's best prospect since Penguins owner-player Mario Lemieux.
Despite also signing some big-name players, they got off to a terrible start by losing their first nine games.
And 40-year-old Mario Lemieux also had another medical setback, when he was diagnosed last week with an irregular heartbeat.
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