For the Pittsburgh Penguins, there's something about a road barn, the 12th of June, and a rookie head coach.
The Penguins added to their championship oddity Sunday night, continuing on with a rather peculiar trend of exclusively winning their Stanley Cups with a rookie head coach at the helm, as pointed out by Corey Masisak.
Mike Sullivan joins previous winners, Bob Johnson, Scotty Bowman, and Dan Bylsma, who each claimed championships in their first seasons in charge, and also had their decisive victories come on away ice.
In addition to that, this latest title run, which came to its conclusion exactly seven years after Bylsma guided Pittsburgh to its first championship in the Sidney Crosby era, was won on the heels of an in-season coaching change.
