It’s the way the NHL world works. A big, heavy, skilled team like the Kings wins the Stanley Cup and teams try to reshape their roster with size and physicality to keep up.

Now, with the Pittsburgh Penguins the reigning champs, you’d better believe NHL front offices have had conversations about how to add speed to keep with an evolving game.

“It always happens. Flavor of the month, right?” Kings general manager Dean Lomabrdi said when we chatted recently, although he was quick to point out that blindly adding speed just to add speed isn’t the answer.

“Speed through the puck beats skating every time,” Lombardi explained. “And can you make plays [at high speeds]? That’s different from pure speed.”

But like the champions before them, the Penguins have left a blueprint on how to win a Stanley Cup, with many of the same building blocks as the recent champions before them in Chicago and Los Angeles.

We examined them in depth on Tuesday but here’s a breakdown of the five key attributes that made the Penguins great: