Morning Pens Buzz: On players who could take over a playoff game for 87/71; Scout Weighs in on two underrated strengths for PHI; Fleury has .893 sv% in last 20 playoff games
MORNING PENS BUZZ The Pittsburgh Penguins are 1-3 all-time (excluding last season) in playoff series where Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin combine for 3 goals or less and 7-0 in series where Crosby and Malkin combine for 4 goals or more. Following their second round ouster in the 2010 playoffs to the Montreal Canadiens after Malkin and Crosby combined for just 2 goals in the series, talks internally started to begin among the Penguins brass about the need to find another game changer who could dominate a playoff game. The Penguins had seen that as a cause of concern and due to no feasible forward options, the team felt the best and easiest way to attack that problem was bolstering