playoffs

Team: 2020-21 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 25, 2021

Published: Apr. 25, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

BOS and NYI are not deep teams.

They can out skill those teams in the top 3 lines easily.
NYI will want a street fight with 5'11 goons.
Take it way from them. Go hit them with 6'4 and 6'6 players.
Force them to ice Ross. Who they have to take off to make that happen.
Mayfield is a statue. More than happy to force him out on the ice longer.

The penguins need to be proactive in taking away people's games. Angello and Zoho are as good a 4th liner as any of those teams have. They can hit and play a physical game.

This team only needs to make it out the metro. After that, they can return to whatever 4th line combo you want. But for 2 series, they need to be able to knock someone through the glass.
BOS does not match up well here. They don't have depth at all. Their 4th line blows. They don't provide anything.
NYI are no better. They don't match up well against the top 3 lines so they have to try to goon it out on the 4th. Beat the crap out their midget 4th line and take their game away from them. Just pound on them.

This team has the pieces and depth to turn itself into what ever it needs to be. Sullivan has to pull his head out his add and do that. He's got big bodies who are physical and can play.
Yeah sitting ZAR kind of sucks, but if it brings in a 6'4 guy who lays 50+ hits in 19 games without losing anything, so be it.

There is more than enough on those top 3 lines to be a pain in the ass. If they can go out there and beat on teams who's only option is to turn the game into a brawl, then they need to do that. This team can get out the metro against these two teams easily. After that, the ice is open to play fast and win. There really isn't anyone else of the other 3 teams they will probably face that can give them any issues. CAR and TB really aren't those teams. TOR, EDM or WGP aren't either. Neither is COL or VGK.

They got two series they need to man up for and do what needs to be done. They do that and they got as good a chance as any.
But if they let 5'11 runts try to bully them when you got 6'6 and 6'4 forwards who can play good enough sitting there, than Sully needs to go.