SAN JOSE, Calf. — There are a million guys from the Boston area nicknamed "Sully," some who don't even have the last name of Sullivan. Sully guys have wicked Massachusetts accents, wear backward baseball caps and might utter a curse word or two. They drive beater cars and wear Celtics painters hats from the Larry Bird glory days and know the difference between a clam and a quahog.
Then there's Mike Sullivan, who is as far from the stereotypical Sully guy as one can get.
Sullivan has the wicked Massachusetts accent, but it ends there. The head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins is a serious man, especially about the sport that has been his whole life. On Sunday night, he completed a six-month turnaround of the Penguins that probably should be given a chapter in some how-to book on coaching.
On Dec. 12 of last year, Penguins management called upon Sullivan to replace Mike Johnston as the team's head coach, with the 15-10-3 Penguins on the outside of the playoff bracket. They seemed like a miscast roster of high-salaried fading stars and no-name castoffs and were now being led by a guy who hadn' ...
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