Penguins Update: We Have a Hockey Team?!

To borrow from the Penguins’ slogan for the 1982-83 season, We have a hockey team?! As you may infer from my purposefully ambiguous punctuation, I’m cautiously optimistic we’re playoff bound.

Until our recent 4-0-1 run, I wasn’t so sure. After all, each time I’d written a remotely positive article this season, our guys promptly hit the skids.

What’s that old saying? Once bitten, twice shy? You’ll excuse me for harboring some doubts.

Still, seemingly out of nowhere we’re resembling a team not far removed from back-to-back Cups, rather than the languid collection of imposters that muddled through the majority of the campaign. Not coincidentally, the troops are displaying a crispness and…