It was a quote after Friday night’s 4-0 shellacking at the hands of the Edmonton Oilers that fits the Penguins still after a second period collapse last night cost them in Vancouver.
“It’s concerning because we’re just not good enough right now,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said late Friday night. “We didn’t play hard enough. We didn’t play together as a group. We weren’t good enough.”
Whenever a NHL coach is admitting that effort and togetherness is a repeated issue, the end is almost certainly near for his stint in charge. It’s almost as if there’s a white flag raised with a lack of answers on how to fix it, and a stunned disbelief of how things have unraveled to get to the way it is.