I was asking around the Penguins' dressing room the other day about how much a coach can affect a team's performance. You can read about that story later today, but consider Sunday night's game a perfect example of it.
You won't find Mike Sullivan's name anywhere among the three stars at the bottom right corner of the official scoresheet for Game No. 1,062 of the NHL season. And you won't find his name on my unofficial three stars below, but you better believe that the coach's fingerprints were all over the Penguins' 4-2 win over the Bruins.
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