Lars Eller played 99 games with the Penguins after signing as a free agent in the summer of 2023. He’s played over 1,050 career NHL games and has won a Stanley Cup, playing for five different teams across 16 seasons. He’s a veteran whose been around the block and had a first hand look at Pittsburgh’s slump on the ice over the past 13 months from a club trying to get back into the top-half of the league as a playoff team down into their descent to (waives hands) whatever it is they’ve become now.
As such, he has a unique perspective to offer now that he’s been sent away from Pittsburgh to reflect back on what went wrong.