I can hear the naysayers now. “Ol’ Buker’s finally flipped his lid. He’s lost his mind.” And I get it.
It’s just that this Penguins team is starting to remind me very much of the 2015-16 team that came out of nowhere to win a Stanley Cup.
How, you ask?
Let me count the ways.
Fresh off a season where they barely scraped into the playoffs on the final day of the regular season, only to be embarrassed in five games by the Rangers, the ’15-16 squad started slowly. A lifeless showing that cost coach Mike Johnston his job.