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Former Penguins center Tyler Kennedy is fearful of his future

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Tyler Kennedy would like to play at least one more NHL season, but he knows the odds are stacked against him.

Speed, and not size, always has been one of Kennedy’s greatest assets, and he’s now a 30-year-old competing against players sometimes a decade younger. The unrestricted free agent also has scored just 13 goals since the start of the 2013-14 season.

“I hope I get something, but I don’t know if I will,” Kennedy said Monday after an informal workout at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. “That’s the hardest thing. If you’re doing all this work and you don’t know if you’re going to play … you can’t really beg someone to sign you.