The longer that more than half of the Penguins’ roster continues to struggle to score, the more general manager Ron Hextall is going to have to consider making a trade to address the issues that are developing.
Those issues are plentiful: Kasperi Kapanen was demoted off Evgeni Malkin’s line last night for the fifth time during a game in less than two months. Kapanen just can’t find a way to stay there, and he can’t find the back of the net either with one goal in his last 24 games. Evan Rodrigues, once the best player on the ice in many an early season game, only has one goal in his last 25 games.