After four games, the Pittsburgh Penguins have no answers to their poor play that has kicked off the start of the 2010-2011 inaugural season of the Consol Energy Center.
Lucky for them, an answer doesn't need to be found. Head Coach Dan Bylsma knows what must be done.
Listening to Bylsma's comments that are coated with frustration, he's absolutely right.
"Sometimes the identity of our team is that we're a high-skilled team that can make plays...when we fall into that kind of identity, we run into problems."
I couldn't agree more; an identity crisis seems to describe the Pens' situation perfectly. Looking at the quality of play from the Pens since Bylsma took the reins on Feb. 15, 2009, the best hockey came when the team embraced Bylsma's system of dumping the puck, forechecking and forcing turnovers, and putting the puck on net with traffic surrounding the crease.
The Pens that have shown up for the first four games of this season haven't come close to implementing that system, but if they can, they can be just as dominant as they were leading up to the Stanley Cup win in 2009.
The key to this is simplicity. Th ...
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Pittsburgh Penguins: Simplicity, Less Flash Will Remedy Slow Start
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