This one wasn't on Mike Sullivan.
The next one should be.
Look, I might've been tiptoeing around some truths regarding the Penguins over this 2022-23 NHL season, if only because, to the inestimable credit of these players and their coaching staff, they've done more than their share of winning at 19-10-6. Eighth-best in the league. Probably better than most had anticipated from the oldest roster this side of Albertan beer league.
And yet, it also couldn't have escaped attention that this team's been so mercurial that the margin between losing seven in a row or tearing apart contenders for several weeks in a row or .