For the Pittsburgh Penguins, this postseason has the chance to be something of a redemption tour. They were largely discounted in the preseason because they seemed to reach peak top-heaviness. Turns out Pittsburgh had one of the most balanced offenses in the League, not just amongst the forwards but with the defensemen chipping in quite a bit as well. In the early part of the season, they were scuffling along, not looking altogether confident, and the injuries to the blueliners started piling up. Then-general manager Jim Rutherford seemed poised to make a move to help shore up the team, but apparently someone above Rutherford’s pay grade didn’t like what he was cooking up and Rutherford departed. By the time he left at the end of January, it seemed like things were in such disarray that there was little hope of coming back from it.