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this is the same kind of "deep" thinking that got the team into trouble last year. When people were like, "this is a deep team" with marleau starting.
Truth is it says more about the East than it does about the penguins. BOS has no depth. Washington slightly better. If the toss up is between the Islanders and the Pens for depth that's a pathetic situation.
Fact is CAR and TB(if healthy) are really deep teams. Much deeper than the pens.
This might be the best pens team in the last 3-4 years, but they are not built to win playoff games. Their first two series are going to be brutal. Their best hope is that they don't play WSH.
They aren't coming to play hockey. Even if they win that series they will probably have 1/2 the team on IR for the next round.
That can be said true of every team they face in the east. They will try to goon their way to victory. This team has done nothing to get people off their 40 goal scoring winger. That isn't helping this team at all.
You can't win when your best players are getting face washed.
They probably have the hardest time of any team in the East advancing.