The Pens never seemed to figure out how to get a nice mix of skill, skating, size and physicality on the backend. And the way Shero went about trying to compliment Malkin and Crosby was just silly, especially most of their deadline deals. They acquire Iginla and then the coach doesn't even play him in the right spots. They spend a 3rd for Stempniak who is a good player but wouldn't spring a 2nd+ for Cammalleri who is a much, much, much better scorer. Depres for Lovejoy last year was a real head scratcher. Trading for Kessel? Bit of a head scratcher.
Its almost EDM like incompetence of management, its just that they started with two franchise centres and a decent goalie and couldn't go anywhere from there.
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