The Penguins can contend to win the Stanley Cup this season.
Is that the message being conveyed by Penguins team president Brian Burke or a general consensus around the NHL following a 10-game win streak? Perhaps it’s a little bit of both.
It’s definitely the former, though, and those comments were recently given by Burke in an interview with NHL Network Radio.
“Do we believe we are a contender? Yes, we do, and we (Burke and general manager Ron Hextall) have since we got here,” Burke said in the interview.
He went on to discuss how things will be fairly limited regarding the salary cap and that it will likely be difficult to make any type of ‘big deal’ before the trade deadline.