The Week Ahead: Some major Metropolitan Division matchups

Photo by Joe Sargent/NHLI via Getty ImagesIt has been a very mixed bag for the Pittsburgh Penguins coming out of the All-Star break.

In the first three games they have at least collected four out of a possible six points, stealing two from Colorado, completely dominating Anaheim, and then having a brutal game in Los Angeles where everything went wrong.

The week ahead sees them continue their current road trip with a rematch of their pre-All-Star game against San Jose, followed by a bunch of big Metropolitan Division games.

Let’s start with the San Jose game.

The first meeting between those two teams came a couple of weeks and saw the Sharks beat a very sluggish Penguins team in what might have…