Back to the Pittsburgh Penguins Newsfeed

Penguins Update: NHL Needs to Fix Playoff Format

No offense to the good citizens of Ottawa, or their hockey team. But every time I ponder the second-round playoff matchups in the Eastern Conference, I see red. Senators red.

In one bracket, you have the Penguins and the Capitals duking it out. Arguably the two best teams in the league, they were the two top point-getters in the National Hockey League during the regular season.

One of them is going home after this series. Just like the team with the fourth-most points, the Blue Jackets, who had the profound misfortune of drawing our powerhouse Pens as their first-round foe.