Meet Pens New Coach Dan Muse

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Hey, sports Porchers, we have
some breaking news, and I'm your

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hockey Jesus, and I'm here to
bring it to you as quickly as

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and possibly as I can without,
you know, making sure that I

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give you a little bit of
knowledge that you haven't

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already known.
But the Pittsburgh Penguins have

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a new head coach.
That's right.

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Everything that I said about the
head coaches was all wrong.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins today
hired Dan Muse as their next

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head coach to coach the
Pittsburgh Penguins upon the

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departure of Mike Sullivan.
Hey, if you don't who I am, I'm

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the hockey Jesus.
I'm here to bring you breaking

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news on the Pittsburgh Penguins.
I love the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Currently, I'm checking out the
NHL playoffs, so hopefully

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you've been catching some of
that coverage.

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But my passion lies with the
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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And I tell you today, it's just
a very exciting day for

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Pittsburgh fans, myself
included.

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Let's get to who this guy is.
Dan Muse.

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Well, honestly, nobody saw this
coming.

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Nobody had Dan Muse on their
bingo card.

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I can promise you that.
But let's let's dig in a little

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bit about what this means for
the Pittsburgh Penguins in their

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future.
Dan Muse, born in Canton, MA.

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So hey FSG group, you got your
Boston guy, so good for you.

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He played, he only played
college hockey, never played a

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lick of NHL, not even minor
league hockey.

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He only played college at Stone
Hill College.

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That was the early 2000s.
He played there.

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And then he went on to coach
various universities where, you

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know, from 2005 to 2015.
So after college, he he he

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bounced around the some
universities, the most important

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one and the most famous of them,
I think, you know, this college,

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it's called Yale University.
Yeah, that's right.

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That's up in Boston, too.
He was assistant head coach

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there.
Not head coach, but assistant

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head coach, and he was part of
that 2013 national championship

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team.
You people in Boston probably

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remember us.
People in Pittsburgh have no

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idea.
But hey, he's a champion, right?

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So that can't be bad upon that.
He actually ended up in the NHL.

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He became in a actually not
right away from 2015 then to

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2017 he coached in the USHL.
That's the United States Hockey

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League where he coached the
Chicago Steel as Clark club

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Clark Cup champions in 2017.
Try and say that three times

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fast.
So once again, one at 1 level, 1

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at the next level.
After the 2017 season, he joined

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Peter Laviolette and at the
National Predators for the 2017.

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Basically the whole time Peter
Laviolette was in Nashville from

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2017 to 2016.
So if you're keeping score at

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home, that was post the Penguins
championship year.

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So he wasn't coaching there when
the Pens beat them in the

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finals.
That was the year after.

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So that actually be an
interesting conversation with

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him how the Predators dealt with
that loss, even though he wasn't

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part of that team.
Two of the three years that

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Nashville made made the
playoffs, they were actually

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President's Trophy the the
following year, 20/17/2018.

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And they did make the playoffs
the following year.

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And of course, you know, they
made the semifinals that

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President's Trophy year, and
we're out in the quarterfinals

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the year after that.
And then good old friend, our

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friend, the COVID came along
and, you know, we're not even

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really going to talk about the
2020 year, although we do know

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Tampa Bay Lightning absolutely
won that Stanley Cup.

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It's a fair Stanley Cup, no
asterisk they won.

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So after that, I think Lavia
Laviolette got canned.

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So somewhere around 2020 is when
he started to coach the USHL.

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This is the developmental group
for, you know, kids coming up

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the under 17 and under 18 crowd.
He was head coach there for

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three years.
So that's check, check mark, you

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know, coaching experience, check
mark coaching young kids both at

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the college level and then now
the kind of at the elite college

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level at under 17.
The under 17 team won gold in

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2022 and went undefeated.
And then again that same team

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the next year went on to win
gold and beat Sweden in overtime

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to win the gold game.
And he was the head coach there.

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So I think that's pretty big
news.

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I, you know, everybody might be
around there saying, hey, you

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know, who's this guy from the
New York Rangers?

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This guy has much more
experience than just with the

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New York Rangers.
That's why you come to the

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Hockey Jesus.
I'm going to give you the full

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picture.
I'm going to give you a good

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snapshot of who this guy is.
Of course, he did play for the

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New York Rangers.
We won't hold that against it.

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And essentially when he played
for the Rangers and play for the

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Predators, he was a bit of a
specialist in the penalty kill

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area.
And for the Rangers, for

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example, the first year he was
there, the New York Rangers were

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third in the penalty kill at
84.5% and they dropped the next

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year after that.
Probably had to do with, you

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know, different personnel.
Look, he was in a team that had

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some superstars.
Panarin was was there, so it's

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not like he doesn't have
experience coaching superstars.

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He clearly, this is clearly a
hire for the young.

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There's no doubt about it.
I think, though, I think he'll

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be able to handle the Sidney
Crosby's and the Malkins and the

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Latangs of the world.
I don't know about the

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Carlson's.
I don't know.

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Can anybody, can anybody handle
Eric Carlson?

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I don't, I don't hold that
against him if he can't handle

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Eric Carlson.
But I can tell you one thing.

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This is a very good hire for the
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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I'm pretty excited about it.
One, because it's a guy you

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don't know about.
So we're going to give him a

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little bit of time to, you know,
you know, get accomplished, you

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know, get set in here in the
burg.

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Hey, Dan, if you want to know
about restaurants, give me a

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call.
Drop me Adm I'll hook you up on

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where to go.
I'm a Pittsburgh guy.

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I can tell you all the back
roads to take to get the PPG

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Arena, especially if you're
coming in from the North or the

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East.
I got you covered, Dan.

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So welcome to Pittsburgh.
Dan Muse.

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Let's let's show, let's show a
little picture of who this guy

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is on the way out.
And I tell you what, I'll see

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you guys in the next one.
Here's here's your head coach.

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This is what he looks like.
He's the man.

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Dan Muse, enjoy the hockey
tonight.

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I'll catch you in the next one.