Too Little Too Late For Penguins?

So Michel Therrien gets the axe as the Penguins are in serious danger of missing the NHL playoffs one year after making it to game six of the Stanley Cup Finals. I don't necessarily agree with the move, especially after hearing the players were beginning to tune Therrien out. In my opinion, the inmates should never run the asylum. If Therrien was good enough to get them back in the postseason and to the Cup Finals, he should have been allowed the opportunity to coach his way out of his team's slump. Oh, well. What's done is done. So now, the new coach says: Forget the trapping, and the defensive-minded style of play, we're going to play to our strengths, play more wide open, and score. They plan to be the St. Louis Rams of hockey. You wanna beat us, outscore us! Maybe that will be enough to get back into the postseason, but one has to ask: Is it too little too late? Pens GM Ray Shero says he didn't like the way the team was playing, so he canned Therrien. Not a huge surprise when you considered he inherited Therrien in the first place. But, when a team has two of the best players in the world, there's pretty much no excuse for not making the playoffs. If this move backfires, Shero deserves a good bit of blame as well. He couldn't convince Marian Hossa to come back, he let Ryan Malone walk, and he mis-fired on the signing of Miroslav Satan. Shero's a good GM, but make no mistake about it, the pressure is now officially on his shoulders. Stay tuned!