I’m going to spare you all and skip the part of this article where I talk about my disdain for the Jack Johnson signing and instead quickly dive into the best ways to utilize the new defensemen out on the ice.
Johnson’s eagerness to get started with the Penguins in a fresh, new city has been readily documented after his signing day and throughout the current preseason, and all of those stories are incredibly uplifting to a fanbase that doesn’t particularly agree with the move Jim Rutherford made. But now that Johnson is getting in the mix in these early exhibition games, the fast-twitch critiques of his game are already filling messages boards to the point of bursting.