Penguins Playoff Update: Is Something Wrong with Sid?
Down 2-games-to-0 and with our first-round series shifting to the City of Brotherly Shove for Games 3 and 4, it goes without saying our Penguins are facing an uphill climb. One might even say we’re in dire straits.
Among our myriad issues, an inability to crack the Flyers’ tight defensive structure and put the puck in the net. Unthinkable for a club that possesses as much firepower and as many weapons as our Pens.
Speaking of, to my eye there seems to be some sort of underlying issue lurking just beneath the surface involving one of our biggest stars.
I’m talking about Sidney Crosby.
With all due respect to our captain, he just hasn’t looked right to me for a long time. For lack of a better way to describe it, he just seems slower and somehow diminished, rather than his usual dynamic self. I can even pinpoint the date when he began to seem “off” to me.
January 25. We were playing the final game of a four-game Western swing against the Canucks. On the heels of a five-game points streak, Sid was held off the scoresheet that night.