Know this about Mike Sullivan, the new Penguins’ coach: He doesn’t expect his tactics and strategies to be radically different from those of Mike Johnston, the Penguins’ old coach.
Or those of just about anyone else running an NHL club these days.
“I don’t think there are drastic differences in the way teams play in the NHL in today’s game,” Sullivan said Saturday.
General manager Jim Rutherford, who made the coaching change, doesn’t entirely agree.
He believes Sullivan’s preferred style of play could help some of the Penguins’ gifted forwards to show up on the score sheet as often as in previous seasons.