2013-2014 Pittsburgh Penguins...

the Pittsburgh Penguins have two of the top players in the NHL,in Evgeni Malkin,and their captain,Sidney Crosby(ranked last year,as the best player in the NHL),to bolster their offense,but why are they talked about in second tier terms,in some areas of the hockey world,because their team defense in the last two playoff runs has been anything but stellar;in 2011-2012,they lost a playoff series that was a total shootout,every game,against hated rival Philadelphia Flyers,in a brutal six games(for example:Philadelphia won game two,and three,by a combined score of 16-9(8-5;game two,and 8-4;game three),and then Philadelphia lost game four,by an unbelievable score of 10-3)... they also lost a series to Boston in the playoffs,last season,in which they scored only two goals... are they a team who scored a ton of goals and lose,or are they a team who can not score a lick,while under pressure??? near the Stanley Cup last season,their goaltending was very bad compared to other seasons... Marc-Andre Fleury had his worst season in net(so much so that Tomas Vokoun was starting goaltender in the playoffs but he is 37 years old),and has to improve for the Penguins to go anywhere near the Stanley Cup... the Penguins have enough talent to make the Stanley Cup playoffs,but can they get past other teams in the playoff tournament that is the run for Lord's Stanley Cup... time will tell...