“We want to be harder to play against!”
That is the current mantra being espoused by Mike Sullivan and Jim Rutherford.
“We want to be harder to play against!”
What does that mean? Another Penguins blog discussed the ambiguity of this statement very recently. Rather than exploring multiple meanings of that catch phrase, they focused on the operant definition generally assumed Sullivan and Rutherford mean when they say “Harder to play against”; grit, sand, often evidenced by hits or checks.