Penguins Update: Winning a Cup Ain’t Easy
“It didn’t seem
like our energy was coming from everyone,” said player number one.
“At times we
looked like a junior team out there the way we were turning the puck over, not
playing the right way, and it came back to bite us,” added a teammate.
“I don’t have
the answer for why the energy wasn’t there; if I did, I’d tell you, but I
don’t,” their coach remarked. “But it’s not good enough. You can’t
win in this league unless you have every guy ready to go and give you his best.
In the playoffs, you have to have that.”
These comments could
very easily have been uttered by Penguins coach Mike Sullivan and, say, Sidney
Crosby and Patric Hornqvist, to
describe the recent postseason plight of our Penguins. But they weren’t. Rather
they were voiced by David Perron, Ryan O’Reilly and Craig Berube to describe the way the defending Cup champ Blues
bowed rather ingloriously to Vancouver in first-round action.
While we’re at, Alex Ovechkin’s Capitals…the team that
ended our two-year run as Cup champs…got kayoed in the first round for the
second-straight year.