Dan Bylsma just got an extension with the Penguins and will remain the team's head coach until at least the 2013-14 season. You can pretty much count on his contract lasting, too, because Mario Lemieux is Old-School, just like, you know...loyalty.
I don't really have a ton to say on this topic because it's not exactly shocking. There is nothing Earth-shattering about a successful team extending its top guys' contracts, especially a team two seasons removed from winning the Stanley Cup and currently sitting just a few points out of first place even though they have lost
their top two players the two best players in the NHL, not to mention almost a whole team's worth of the supporting cast. I bring this up, mainly, to further rub the salts of success in the wounds of perennially losing teams, because the blueprint for success runs rampant in Pittsburgh, at least outside of PNC Park: be loyal to your guys, support them even when they are down, and they will repay you handsomely. But if you sign prima donas and turn over more than half of your roster from one season to the next, you are doomed to long-term failure.
Ask the state of Ohio how well that plan has worked for their professional football programs.
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