There wasn't a single thing that mattered more to the Penguins this past offseason than re-signing Kris Letang, and through two games of the 2022-23 season he's already proving why that was the case.
Regardless of the fact that the best alternatives to Letang on the open market were ... John Klingberg, P.K. Subban (now retired) and Josh Manson, keeping Letang in the same locker room as Sidney Crosby was always going to outweigh anything else.
It does help, however, that Letang is far and away the best of the players mentioned, or that Letang is still one of the best defensemen in the NHL period.