The Pittsburgh Penguins coach search took them straight back to the South Shore.

It's not for them to be so good to immerse themselves again.

Marshfield's Mike Sullivan spent 10 seasons on the bench at Pens, winning 409 regular season games and directed them to the Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017. The former British Columbia high school and Boston University star split with the team after his third straight non-game this spring.

On Wednesday, Pittsburgh announced Sullivan’s successor - New York Rangers assistant Dan Muse, who grew up in Guangzhou (as well as Northern California and Alabama, among others), played at Stonehill College in Easton, and coached at Milton Academy in 2005.

Muse, 42, became the third active NHL head coach to be linked with Ledgerland. Sullivan worked as a Ranger for a long time on May 2. Warsofsky also served as the American coach for this spring IIHF world champion, which allowed the Americans to win the first gold medal since 1960.

Muse became the 23rd head coach in Penguin history.

"During this process, we met with many candidates who we felt would have been a fit as the next head coach of the Penguins, but ultimately, Dan Muse stood out as the best choice. What separate Dan was his ability to develop players, win at all levels where he has been a head coach and his consistent success coaching special teams in the NHL," President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas said in a “From his influential collaboration with experienced players during his tenure in the NHL, he demonstrated a proven ability to connect with players at all stages of his career and help them reach their potential.”

“In addition, his leadership of special team troops at the NHL level in Nashville and New York has always achieved elite results. His overall work, attention to detail and overall work on our group’s vision shows that he is the best coach to move forward. We are delighted to welcome Dan and his family, his family and the City of Pittsburgh.”

Muse has 20 years of coaching experience, including five seasons in the NHL as an assistant coach for the New York Rangers (2023-25) and Nashville Predators (2017-20). He has also coached at universities, including Yale as an assistant (2009-14) and associate head coach (2015), helping the Bulldogs win the 2013 national championship, ironically, in the Penguin Building. He also taught at Sacred Heart University (2008-09) and Williams College (2007-08).

During his college and NHL era, he served as head coach of the Chicago Steel of the American Hockey League since 2015-17. Chicago won the team's first Clark Cup under the watch of the 2016-17 year.

Muse played four seasons in Stonehill, the third division, since 2001-02. He recorded five goals and six assists in 61 games.

"You have to believe in yourself, you have to believe in your work," Moose said in a story by Taylor Haase of dkpittsburghsports.com. "When you do everything you can prepare for, you get into anything with confidence. ...I've been coaching at a higher level than I've played. Every level I coached is higher than I've played. I probably first entered the locker room on Sacred Heart for the first time, which is probably more intimidating than going to the Level I coach (rather than entering the Predator locker room).

“I’m not only a D3 player, I’m a Bad D3 player, "must continue." Those statistics are filling statistics! I have a few Phantoms assists there! These aren't even real, worse than that! But it's like, I always Always doing this. Not new to me. I know I'm a player and I shouldn't even be a D3 player. That was part of my journey. You have to take the same approach and put it into the coaching. Put into work. Get in there and be confident and proud of your presentation. ”