Rest of NHL aims to prevent Penguins Stanley Cup three-peat
Each time Seth Jones felt like the Columbus Blue Jackets were dominating, the Pittsburgh Penguins went down the ice and scored. The series was over fast.
T.J. Oshie knows the feeling because the Penguins did it to the Washington Capitals often during playoff series the past two years.
“It kind of deflates what we’re doing and it’s hard to trust your game after that,” Oshie said.
Opportunistic, well-coached and talented, Pittsburgh has won eight consecutive playoff series to become the NHL’s only back-to-back Stanley Cup champion of the salary-cap era and the first since the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998. Now everyone’s trying to figure out how to stop the march of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and the Penguins as they go for the three-peat.