Should I simply pull out a sentence from either the 2021 or 2023 coaching searches to remind folks there have been three head coaches in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup with more than one team, with the one and only Scotty Bowman able to pull off the feat over the past eight decades?
(Tommy Gorman won the Cup in 1934 with the Blackhawks and in 1935 with the Montreal Maroons, and Dick Irvin was behind the bench when the 1932 Maple Leafs and 1946 Canadiens captured the chalice.)
So when Mike Sullivan, who “parted ways” with the Penguins on Monday morning, gets his next gig, will Pittsburgh’s 2016 and 2017 Cup-winning coach become the fourth name on that exclusive list, or will the 57-year-old fall short like a multitude before him?
Another question, and this one is more pointed: