{"id":217535,"date":"2025-09-11T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217535\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:48:10","slug":"former-penguins-coach-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217535\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Penguins Coach Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-8.03.09-PM-1120x630.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Penguins coach Michel Therrien\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Pittsburgh Penguins coach Michel Therrien\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The coach who took the <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> from a disorganized rebuild to a cohesive young troop ready to win a Stanley Cup has retired. <\/p>\n<p>Michel Therrien, who previously coached the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealhockeynow.com\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> before going to the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, and then was elevated to the NHL team in December of 2005, is retiring. <\/p>\n<p>Therrien, 61, made the announcement on Montreal radio, where he has worked for the last three years. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve reached that point in my life,\u201d said Therrien. I had a good conversation this week with Louis-Philippe Neveu at TVA, who treated me very well during those three wonderful years \u2026 I had been thinking about it for a few months, and then when you feel that you need to move on to another stage, you have to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Therrien\u2019s WBS Penguins began the 2005 season 21-1-2 before he got the call to the NHL. While he could be a stern taskmaster, he united the team of young players, culminating in a Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>However, Therrien\u2019s Penguins tenure came to a close in the middle of the following season as the young team had begun to revolt, and he was replaced by Dan Bylsma. <\/p>\n<p>In his three-plus seasons with the Penguins, he was 132-105-32. The Penguins were 15-10 in the Stanley Cup playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>Following his termination, he returned to Montreal in 2012-13 and coached four more seasons, his last being 2016-17. Therrien also coached the Montreal Canadiens from 2000-01 to midway through the 2002-03 season. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, Therrien coached 814 NHL games with a 406-303-23 (ties)-82 (overtime losses). <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DOPamwKkYki\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/michel-therrien\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Therrien<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins coach Michel Therrien The coach who took the Pittsburgh Penguins from a disorganized rebuild to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[118808,293,31046,1334,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-217535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-michel-therrien","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins-news","11":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115184330625805460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}