The figurative rain fell on Mike Bales a day after the actual parade.

The Pittsburgh Penguins celebrated their latest Stanley Cup win in the city's streets Wednesday, and on Thursday, Bales was informed that he was being let go as the team's goalie coach after four years of service.

"I wasn't expecting that coming off two Cups in a row," Bales admitted to Jason Mackey of the Post-Gazette.

According to Mackey, Bales was seen as Marc-Andre Fleury's guy, while his replacement, Mike Buckley, has a closer relationship with Matt Murray. With the former set to move on as the franchise presses on with the latter - and rightfully so - Bales suddenly became replaceable, even though both goalies combined for 16 wins, five shutouts, and a .929 save percentage during this year's Cup run.

It's yet another twist in what has been a unique goaltending situation in Pittsburgh over the past year.

"Sometimes if things aren't working out, the organization gets a new goaltender, and they weren't happy with their goaltending coach, they may ask the goaltender who they like," Bales said. "If it's a good fit for the team and the coaching staff, they'll make changes. I don't think it's very common what happened here."

Fleury, Bales added, was shocked by Pittsburgh's decision, and thought the goalie coach was goofing. Not so, and Bales was hired Saturday by the Carolina Hurricanes, for whom he's excited to work with.

"I'm genuinely really excited to go there and work with the goaltenders there in the organization," he said, with Scott Darling in line to be the starter. "They're a young, up-and-coming team. I'm going to go there and be successful there, too. Good things happen to good people, I always say. I know good things will happen there for me."

Fleury's next destination is yet to be determined, while Murray will get to work even more closely with his apparent goalie coach of choice.

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