Game 1 Analysis: What We Learned – Speed, physicality of Penguins too much for Islanders to handle

GAME 1 ANALYSIS: WHAT WE LEARNED 1. Coming into the series, a glaring mismatch I felt strongly in the Penguins favor was going to be the the speed, physicality of the Penguins forwards going up against the Islanders smallish group of defensemen. That area of concern for the Islanders showed up all night in Game 1 and it’s going to be one of their downfalls in this series. The Penguins upfront are just too fast and too strong for the Islanders to handle and that was evident early on from Beau Bennett beating Andrew MacDonald wide on his first period goal to Brandon Sutter getting past Mark Streit wide and drawing a penalty with 43 seconds left in the first