The writing is on the wall here that the Pittsburgh Penguins might actually be entering the initial stages of a rebuild. Whether it actually happens now, or a year from now, or at some other point it has been a long time since we have actually had to watch a process like this play out.
The Jake Guetnzel trade last year was the first major shoe to drop.
The bad start to this season and the Lars Eller trade this week were next.
There will be more.
You have to go back nearly 25 years for the last time the Penguins actually had to do this.