Winning back-to-back Stanley Cups for the first time in the NHL's salary cap era likely affords Penguins coach Mike Sullivan more creative latitude than some of his counterparts on other teams.
Sullivan appears willing to test just how much slack he's going to get in Pittsburgh.
One of the things we learned during locker cleanout day on Thursday -- blame Brian Dumoulin, which Sullivan likely will -- was that Sullivan has a habit of showing his players some New England Patriots-centric videos as motivation.
Conor Sheary said that Sullivan once had the Penguins watch a 30-minute documentary on the story of Tom Brady, then walked it back a bit.