Brief and to the Point ...
Not much about Mike Sullivan's debut behind the Penguins' bench Monday looked terribly different from far too many games under Mike Johnston: They put up a ton of shots with 45, failed to put home 44 of those, engaged in a lot of lateral silliness on the power play, gave up a bunch of odd-man breaks, barely kept the crowd awake at Consol Energy Center ... and lost, 4-1, to the Capitals.
Even the systems and player selections looked largely the same.
And yet, from what a few players told me afterward, what mattered the most was all new.
"He ran a really good bench," David Perron was saying as part of a longer dissertation on the new coach. And once he was done, I couldn't help but ask him to expound on that.
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