GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Penguins having won two Stanley Cups in a row, there is always a target painted squarely on their backs. Every night, they're someone else's measuring-stick game. They're the team that 30 others aspire to be, and to knock down a peg or five.
"Anytime you’re playing the Pittsburgh Penguins with Sidney Crosby and a guy named Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang, that’s a game that you try and benchmark yourself at," Ian Cole was telling me Friday after practice at Gila River Arena. "Even when I was in St. Louis, that’s something we did, for sure."
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