Pittsburgh is a black hole right now. The players wanted the coach fired, he was and now the team is playing worse.
Mike Sullivan needs to do something drastic to jumpstart that room and taking the C away from Crosby could be an option.
Actually sadly they look better now than before
Their Gm should be fired, they had the best/one of the best D prospect pools in the league with Letang being in his early prime, and now they have the worst defense in the league without Letang and still bad with him.
Of course Sullivan has had to play without MAF, Letang and right winger Bennett, they have problems even with them in the lineup but shouldn't be this bad.
They had to go and use their final assets on Kessel when they desperately need a top4RD, their top4 got traded to Anaheim for 3rd pairing Lovejoy, and 1st in a deep draft for a player who looks like a bust.
Then of course they let all of Niskanen, Martin, Orpik, Erhoff walk for free during 12 month time
while having send Despres to Anaheim and Pouliot having serious problems with his development.
+How they handled Sprong, as bad as possible.
Their Cup hopes are done, they don't have the assets to make them contender and they have a bad Gm making decisions for them.
It all starts from the defense.
