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DK's Daily Shot of Penguins: Making fun of Jim Rutherford? Really?

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

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4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jim Rutherford had a very successful tenure as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins, winning two Stanley Cups to go along with one he got with Carolina. The audacity of some to criticize and make fun of Rutherford is asinine. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:10.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

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0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.0

It's on Prime.

0:34.6

One thing I really, really, really don't like to do in sports commentary is revisit old stuff.

0:46.1

Been there, done that, debated it, disgusted, over with.

0:53.3

But Jim Rutherford was hired in Vancouver to be the Canucks team president,

0:59.3

and he met with the British Columbia media yesterday and had some stuff to say. And oh, my goodness,

1:08.3

what a reaction that sparked here. Good morning to you. Good Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is Daily Shot of Penguins. Comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or baseball, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Pir pirates, right where you found this.

1:30.5

Rutherford has won three Stanley Cups in his Hall of Fame career.

1:38.2

That is exactly one, two, three more than anyone's one in Vancouver, ever.

1:50.1

And his appointment to the position that he'll now be working, which sounds a lot like the way

1:59.0

he was hired here in Pittsburgh is that he'll be the president

2:03.8

of hockey operations he's responsible for finding a GM, finding someone to, you know, succeed

2:10.4

him, kind of the way it was supposed to happen here when he was flanked by Jason Botrell

2:16.7

and Billy Guerin and Tom Fitzgerald, and none of the

2:20.4

three obviously succeeded him. And none of the three ever was going to. So we'll see how that part

2:27.1

plays out. I don't care about the Canucks. I definitely don't care about Vancouver. However, at the press conference,

2:38.0

Jim was asked a question about one part of his tenure in Pittsburgh,

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