PITTSBURGH — He’s sported jerseys from three different teams since this time a year ago.
There was the Rangers home blue, which he was wearing last April 24, when his shot past Marc-Andre Fleury while falling in the right faceoff circle capped an overtime win that eliminated the Penguins in Game 5 of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
This fall, he wore the colors of the Anaheim Ducks, where he landed in a draft day trade for Emerson Etem.
And here was Carl Oliver Hagelin on Wednesday, with the long blond hair of a surfer untethered from his helmet, sitting in a locker room wearing the black-and-gold of the Pittsburgh Penguins, where he was shipped on Jan.