Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Penguin Kyle?
Marek: “What’s the latest between Dubas and the Pens?”
Friedman: “So on Saturday night time we reported that the Penguins had been anticipated to ask for permission to talk to Dubas. As we taped this, early Sunday night after Game 2 of the Western Conference remaining, I hear that they do have permission to talk to Dubas. So if goes to go anyplace, I feel we’re going to search out out fairly shortly.
From what I perceive, Pittsburgh was very near ending their search. I feel there was the risk that we had been going to search out who the new head of Pittsburgh’s hockey operations was going to be early this week.
I consider that was the plan and I consider that’s the place we had been headed, Jeff. And once more, I simply wish to ensure that, I’m not satisfied, it would find yourself being the case, however I’m not satisfied it’s going to be president of hockey operations and GM for Pittsburgh. I feel they’re going to rent “one lead hockey person” and form of fill it out from there.
One of the issues I used to be instructed is, they could solely use the president of hockey operations title if they’ve to advertise another person to GM to get them out of one other group.
Anyway, I feel they had been getting actually shut. If you’ve heard all the podcasts, you heard the names we’ve form of talked about. I feel Mathieu Darche is one individual from Tampa they had been taking an actual arduous have a look at. We’ll see the place it goes.
But now Dubas has dropped into the center of all these searches. And I’ll say this, I had individuals who had been sort telling me that the entire thought of Dubas perhaps going to Ottawa sooner or later, and spicing up that rivalry with Toronto, undoubtedly appealed to some folks however I feel Pittsburgh is gonna make their pitch and see if that appeals Kyle Dubas. And I feel that course of is underway.”
Marek: “The Kyle Dubas speak. The Kyle Dubas content material was all over the place this weekend, and the conversations had been wild. I simply wish to ensure that I throw this on the market on the Pod, simply as, I don’t in the end suppose it’s going to occur however one dialog I had, somebody was speculating that they might see Dubas speaking to Fenway Sports however not about the Pittsburgh Penguins, relatively about baseball.
And it might be a really Kyle Dubas transfer to swerve all people and find yourself working in baseball for Fenway Sports and not…
Friedman: “Why didn’t you just Liverpool? He’s going to talk to Fenway to run Liverpool.”
Marek: “I’m just putting it out there. I’m just throwing things out there on this podcast today.”
