Dan Muse met with the media on Friday for the second time since being hired as the Penguins' head coach, and the first time since filling out his coaching staff with the additions of Todd Nelson, Mike Stothers, Rich Clune and Nick Bonino and the re-hiring of Andy Chiodo. Here's a full transcript of the availability.

Question: "The composition of the coaching staff, there's some veterans such as Todd and Mike, and there's some younger guys, Rich and Nick, that seems very deliberate. You wanted to have maybe a mix of people with different experiences in terms of years, as well as just places they've been. Is that an accurate statement?"

Muse: "Yeah, that's accurate. I think it's how exactly it was going to look. When we started that process, I wasn't sure, but I knew that having a mix of experiences, mix of different backgrounds, some different ideas, but also bring in people that have some core philosophies that are similar and they're aligned. You want that. I like different. You go through the entire coaching staff now, there's a lot of different places that these coaches have come from, experiences that they've had in the game, and so now you bring that all in together. But I was really happy. It's a long process when you're filling out very close to a full coaching staff. But these guys, I think, are going to be bring a lot. And when we bring all all those ideas together, we're looking for that to benefit the group, benefit the organization. And I think it will."

Question: "Kyle (Dubas) mentioned some of the duties, like who's running the power play, I don't think he mentioned the forwards. Who's going to oversee the forwards?"

Muse: "Todd Nelson will be working with the forwards along with Nick Bonino. Mike Stothers will be working with the D, he'll be working with the penalty-kill. Nick Bonino will also help with the penalty-kill. Rich Clune will be eye in the sky, so he won't be on the bench during games. But Rich is going to be involved in a lot of different things. I can tell right away from working with him, he's going to be somebody that can bring a lot of ideas to a lot of different parts of the game. There'll be a little bit more focus there with him on individuals, there'll be connection with him connecting the player development, but he'll also have a voice and a hand in a lot of things. And I think that goes with the entire coaching staff. We've had a few days of meetings now. We're going to continue to meet throughout the entire camp. We'll be in conversations all summer. We'll come back together at the end of the summer, there's work to be done. This week's been big for us as a starting point, but everybody's going to have a voice."

Haase: "What's the benefit of having someone like Nick Bonino, not that far removed from his playing career? And when you had him as a player, did you see him as a future coach?"

Muse: "Oh, I definitely did. Yeah. I said it to him before. I think he might have brought it up yesterday, but I did. We had a lot of conversations about the game, especially working with somebody like Bones in two different organizations. I think he's somebody who's always thinking, and he's got great ideas. He had great ideas as a player. And so those will be the good conversations. And you could just tell he was somebody that I had hoped he'd want to get into coaching, I thought, because I feel like there's a lot of that he can bring to a coaching staff. The timing couldn't work out better, the fact that it's here, and also the fact that he was in a position where he felt like this would be a good time to transition into that next phase of the game for him. You can tell right away just how engaged he is in the conversations that we're having and the different ideas that he's already bringing. I mean, he's been coaching for like, two weeks now, but you also take into account that he's been in the game for a long time, and he's had success in the game too. And I think that's also something to note with the entire coaching staff is everybody's got some great experiences. I think people have been in roles where development has been a focus. But throughout the coaching staff, there's a lot of winning too, and so knowing what it takes to win, because that's why we're here. We've talked a lot about development, and I did in my press conference as well, but like, it's about us getting back to contention and winning. I really am happy with the way the coaching staff rounded out, and that there's a lot of experience in that."

Question: "That notion of winning really applies to Todd Nelson, a back-to-back Calder Cup champion. What can he offer your squad?"

Muse: "I actually lost track of how many Calder Cups he's actually won. You go back, it's like four or five. It's a crazy record, that crazy success that he's had, and he's done it while still developing younger players coming up. He's done it with older players, veteran players as well, and everything in between. And so he's got a great track record. We didn't have a relationship prior to this. I spoke with him, but I was really impressed going through the process with him, the ideas that he has. You want to have people around you too that have gone through it before. And while it's always different in different places, and every team that has success has their own story behind it, there are some things that do apply across the board. Same thing with Mike Stothers, the success that he's had, success that Rich Clune's had in the game, the entire staff. And Nick Bonino, obviously, with the two Cps here, but he's won throughout his career, even going back to the NCAA championship. So it's good to have that. It's good to have that, while also having the cultures that you know have had success there in some different places, in terms of developing and getting not just individuals, but also groups to that point where they're having that success."

Question: "How much input or direction did Kyle give you on assistant coaches?"

Muse: "We were working together throughout the entire process. Whether it's a name that maybe came to me or a name that came to him, we were communicating on all that, along with Jason Spezza as well. I didn't come into the job saying this is the group. There's some people that I thought I'd want to speak with, and that was a starting point. But I think sometimes people come into a job like this and they'll have it locked in that this is pretty firm, this is going to be the coaching staff that we want to go with. That wasn't the case here. And so it probably made it for a little bit of a longer process. But I actually thought it was really good, I got to speak with a lot of great coaches, anyone who would have been great behind an NHL bench. We felt like this staff that we have now, this is the right fit for for us."

Question: "With Nick, there's four guys still on the team that he won Cups with, two others with Tristan (Jarry) and Erik (Karlsson) that he's played with as well. How much value is there with that? How much can that help you, that he has familiarity with a few guys that are still on team?"

Muse: "No, it definitely helps a lot, the fact that the relationships are already there in some ways. It might be a little different, I think that players getting used to calling him Coach Bonino, Coach Bones. I think it helps, because the relationship piece, and the type of person that he is, it's going to be a really easy transition. Even while he's playing, he was kind of coaching in some ways, he was just that type of a person. Just being familiar with the players, the people, the organization as a whole, yeah, there's definitely a bonus. But if I was working in a different organization, I'd make the same phone call to him."

Question: "The back end has been a focal point of discussion for a while now. Mike (Stothers) was added onto the staff late. Just what went into the decision to bring him in for that role specifically?"

Muse: "He's another coach that's had tremendous success, really, everywhere he's been. He won a championship there in the American League. He's been an assistant coach in the NHL for multiple organizations. He's somebody I've met before, but we didn't have a relationship prior to this. We spoke to a lot of people that he's worked with, a lot of players that he's worked with. The hockey world's a small world, and it's pretty easy to connect the dots, the impact that he's made on players. Both him and Todd Nelson, I was blown away by the conversations and just how impactful that they've been on both the teams that they've worked for in the past, but also the relationships and the way he's been able to help players continue to grow in pro hockey. We feel strongly that there's going to be a lot of benefits that he'll be able to bring to the back end. And as I said before, too, this is going to be a collaborative group. This isn't going to be independent contractors working in different parts of the building. It's going to be us working together with the entire group and I think that as a coaching staff, everybody believes in that, and we'll be doing that."

Haase: "You bring back Andy Chiodo, kind of coming off a tough year for the goalies, Tristan Jarry in particular. What gives you confidence that Chiodo is the guy for the job?"

Muse: "He went through the process too. This wasn't me being here and saying this is convenient to keep somebody on board. These hires are important, and making sure that the group that we have here is the right fit for these players, the organization, and also for the staff and for the way we wanted to work together. So we went through a process with him. I met with him for a long time. I spoke with other people as well, other candidates, and he earned the job. And so I'm excited that he's back. I'm excited about the work he's going to do based on the conversations that we had."