It looked kind of weird, but like, I don't know what I'm reading.

The Pittsburgh season comes to an end and penguins management all dismissed. Welcome to

32 Thoughts. The podcast presented by GMC and the Sierra AT4X. Elliott, the Pittsburgh

penguins announcing this morning, they have relieved president of hockey operations, Brian Burke,

General Manager Ron Hextal, and Assistant General Manager Chris Pryor of their duties we

suspected and we were talking about it all week that when Fenway makes up their mind we won't

have to wait very long to find out what their decision is and this is their decision.

I don't think anybody is hugely surprised by this Jeff. I can't imagine anyone sitting here today

saying we didn't expect this to happen. You knew that the way things were going Pittsburgh

missing the playoffs that there were going to be consequences. You could see in the market there

was a crisis of consumer confidence. The writing was on the wall and earlier this season I had

a conversation with someone in Boston media and he preferred not to have his name used so I won't

use it. Just about what Fenway is like. How do they operate? What to expect from them? Every company

has tendencies, right? And this person said to me that one thing about Fenway is they work quick.

If they're making changes they don't let it drag out. They said that some of the people who've

been fired by Fenway actually liked that about them. It's not a long walk. It is quick. The other

thing that they said about Fenway is that you generally know of chains coming because the wind

start blowing a certain way. For example Fenway runs the Boston Globe and they're good at getting

their message out. In the last few weeks as things started happening around the trade deadline

and stories started getting out about disputes maybe between the coaching staff and the front office

this person said it was an absolute red flag to them that change was coming. Look, in this league

especially with that team the expectations that are around them after the moves they made last

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