Since Mike Sullivan stepped in as head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins in December 2015, he’s seen everything from two championships to the team’s first postseason whiff in 17 years.
But he’s never seen anything quite like this week’s training camp.
“This might be the most competitive group of players we have ever assembled,” Sullivan said Friday, per the Penguins on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Penguins began training camp on Thursday with 58 players split onto three rosters. Although that’s a similar total to the 57 players the team invited to last year’s camp, it’s a different look.