{"id":124884,"date":"2022-02-03T09:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=124884"},"modified":"2022-02-02T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:17:06","slug":"analyzing-the-pittsburgh-penguins-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/02\/03\/analyzing-the-pittsburgh-penguins-play\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Wrong With the Pittsburgh Penguins Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the start of 2022, the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> have managed to snag points in 12 of 15 games despite a poor effort. They have been lucky enough to get scoring from all four lines this season in addition to Vezina calibre goaltending. Along with the on-ice play, Mike Sullivan<\/a> is finally getting his much deserved Jack Adams<\/a> considerations. Although their record is great, they’ve had some very poor games which have resulted in a win. The Pittsburgh Penguins’ play has been underrated all season mainly from the number of man-games lost and adversity they’ve faced. Although we’ve seen their powerplay get a bump in production, injuries remain the issue for this team.<\/p>\n

Penguins Collecting Wins Despite Poor Efforts<\/h2>\n

Offensively<\/h3>\n

The Penguins have been blessed with the breakout season of Evan Rodrigues<\/a>. The Penguins have had insane goal-scoring from Bryan Rust<\/a>, Jake Guentzel<\/a>, and Evan Rodrigues. We also can’t leave out Sidney Crosby<\/a> returned from injury and hasn’t missed a beat as he’s playing at a 1.1 point per game rate and an 80 point pace in 70 games. When the offensive production from all four lines has gone silent there is always one line that steps up for this team. The one area the team has struggled in is finishing on chances and outright high danger chances<\/a>. Along with the forwards, the Penguins have seen a jump in offence most notably from defencemen Kris Letang<\/a> and Mike Matheson<\/a>. The issues come from just not playing to their full potential. Oftentimes we’ll see the offence extremely elite in the third period but invisible in the first two periods. So you may be wondering, no issues were mentioned minus effort, if you have no effort to your offensive game you’re going to get torched in the defensive zone. Luckily the Penguins have Tristan Jarry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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