Even though there were a couple of concerning developments to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season-opening loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night, I am not going to overreact to it.
A lot of those concerns were repeats of everything we saw last season, from the inability to hold a multiple goal lead, to a power play that spends all of its time passing around the perimeter and not capitalizing in a big moment.
I am confident they can fix both of those things. On paper, it does look like a significantly better team defensively and I am not going to let one game dictate my thoughts on that, and I want to see more than two power play opportunities before I jump to any conclusions on what the power play is going to do with Erik Karlsson in the mix.