Penguins: Return of the King?
Warning: cultural reference ahead!
I was sitting here musing about this mandatory break from hockey that the Penguins are now enjoying. I could help but picture Gandalf and Pippin standing about in one of the towers of Gondor staring out to the east at Mount Doom and the approaching horde loosed by Sauron. Pippin asked Gandalf what it was. Gandalf replied “It is the deep breath before the plunge”.
The team is clinging precariously to the final Wild Card spot with 47 points. Three teams are tied 1 point behind them with 46 points. Philadelphia and Carolina have 2 games in hand and the New York Islanders have 1 game in hand. The players themselves are physically and mentally resting. After the Penguins take their deep breath they plunge right back into another of their seemingly endless array of back-to-back series; taking on a Detroit team that dismantled them in their first meeting on the front end and then the New York Rangers who sit 2 points above them, who they have split against so far on the back end.
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