As head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Sullivan must now figure out how to slow the roll of the Nashville Predators, the lovable band of speedsters who’ve had that team-of-destiny look as they romped through the Western Conference en route to the Stanley Cup final.
A big ask, but perhaps not as intimidating as this assignment from his playing days in Calgary ...
“I can remember in the Vancouver series, back in those days you used to shadow people, and he was going to shadow Pavel Bure. And what a tough task that was,” recalled former Flames skipper Dave King, reminiscing about an opening-round showdown with the Russian Rocket and the Vancouver Canucks in the spring of 1994.