ChaosAgent
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- May 8, 2018
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Truth be told, JR has spent the last 18 months deconstructing a cup champion and turning them into a team every bit as slow, bland, and lacking in puck moving defensemen as the team that started the 2015-2016 season.
Truth be told, the Pens identity WAS playing fast, but as the rest of the league spent the last 18 months getting faster, the Pens got slower and less mobile, to the point that this team is every bit as slow in today's NHL as the 2015-2016 Penguins were in the NHL of 4 years ago.
Until JR is willing, as a philosophical matter, to fix THAT, I'm not sure anything else from a cap and roster management perspective matters.
He doesn't have the stuff in WBS to do that this time around. In 2016, they brought up Sheary-Rust-S Wilson-Kuhnhackl. Not exactly a cast of all stars but they did help make us crappy to play against. Not to mention the forward core was 3 years younger.