The timing has been a challenge with the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the expansion draft and the actual draft clustered together and so close to the start of free agency.
It’s also not easy considering — as they do every year — the Penguins figure to bump their collective head on the salary-cap ceiling.
The two biggest tells if you’re looking to see where and how everything will fall? Could be center Nick Bonino and defenseman Trevor Daley.
General manager Jim Rutherford has told all of his unrestricted free agents to go to market on July 1, the start of free agency, and see what they can get.