Penguins Playoff Update: A Word from Captain Obvious
Question.
What do Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, William Nylander, John Tavares, Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, Vladimir Tarasenko, Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Cale Makar, Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point and David Pastrnak have in common?
In addition to being supremely gifted hockey players, all are presently watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs from their respective living rooms. Or they’re out on the links trying to lower their handicap. Depending on which way the puck bounces in tonight’s Game 6 between the Golden Knights and Oilers, they could be joined in short order by supernovas Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and fellow 100-point man Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
That’s an incredible amount of talent to be packing up their gear during what’s supposed to be the NHL’s showcase season.
Okay, so here comes my Cap’n Obvious statement. Wait for it…
…the NHL regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs are different animals.