The Pens don't play a fast style. I know it sucks to watch our games, but if you haven't seen that we haven't played a fast style for more than a couple games in 7 years I dunno what to tell you. The only thing left from 2016 is risky attempts at fast breaks. He HAS slowed down our style, he did it in 2017, and we've sucked ever since.
We play passive pack the net defense, push the puck up the boards on breakouts and have no organisation or pace to our offense. We get fewer oddmans than just about every other team. We're poorly coached on man-to-man defense, we don't give a shit about reading the play on D, we play passive in our zone that means we get the puck way down low and never get easy goals, we're uncreative on breakouts and yeah our best players are almost 40. It's got nothing to do with playing fast, it's that we play a style built for plugs to keep games close, which kills our offense, but we make horrible individual plays on defense so we get scored on anyway.
Maybe Sid doesn't see it, but Sully isn't caught on anything. He wants us to play this way because he thinks it's the best way to stay in games and refuses to try anything else. Sid, Geno and Letang are here because they've been here for 20 years and they love each other and their lives in Pittsburgh, not because they're attached to losing every night with an unwatchable style.
