I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford do a little more roster-altering this summer.
Derick Brassard, for one, might want to hold off on signing that next lease.
But if Sunday’s kickoff to free agency marked the last significant work of Rutherford’s offseason, I like the rationale behind it (though I still wonder if there’s enough abrasiveness on this roster). The Penguins basically told the hockey world, “We’re think we’re good enough to win another Cup with just a few tweaks.”
These were just tweaks, you know. I’m not sure if they were the right ones — the two guys the Penguins signed are a combined 72 years old — but they were tweaks nonetheless.