Forget about how new general manager Jim Rutherford missed out on his top choice to take over the Pittsburgh Penguins this summer. That's irrelevant to how Mike Johnston is going to come in and run this team. Despite the seemingly long jump from the WHL to the best pro-hockey league in the world, the 57-year-old has been around the game all his life and did an fantastic job with the Portland Winterhawks.
Talk is cheap, but for what it's worth, Johnston is already saying the right things. He knows that winning during the regular season is important, but it's in the playoffs where people earn the right to keep their jobs.
Gene Collier of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette captured the following comments from the new bench boss, who addressed the need to be in attack mode from the outset:
The bottom-line expectation for me is that, from training camp through the first part of the season, everything we do is setting the table for the playoffs. The score is relevant but it's not as relevant as the habits that we are going to have to make us successful in the playoffs. So right from day one, we, as a coaching staff, want to be se ...
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