Can Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins repeat as Stanley Cup champions?
No team since the 1997-98 Detroit Red Wings has repeated as Stanley Cup champions. The young Penguins have played in 208 regular season and postseason games over the previous two years. That’s a lot of games for a team that’s entering the playoffs, looking to find consistency in their game once the playoffs begin. This Penguins team is much different than the team that entered last’s year’s playoffs steaming hot, as they won 8 out of 10 games to end the season. Injuries have slowed Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin, as he only complied 77 points on the season. Malkin has missed 15 games and the Penguins have gone 5-9-1 in those contests. And even though goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury’s numbers are similar to a year ago, he’s won consecutive starts only twice since the end of January, so if he is unable to play like he did during last’s year finals, the Penguins chances of repeating are bleak. Will we be fortunate enough to see another Game 7 of the Stanley Cup? Since 1942 when the first game 7 of
