Mike Sullivan has been on the job for less than two weeks.
He stepped into a bad situation, and it hasn’t gotten much better since he arrived.
Fact is, it’s worse, at least on paper.
The Penguins lost four of their first five games after Sullivan replaced Mike Johnston as coach Dec. 12 and have drifted a full five points away from the Eastern Conference’s final playoff berth.
When they convene Saturday morning for a two-hour flight to the Twin Cities, where they will face Minnesota at Xcel Energy Center that night at 8:08 p.