The Penguins have one of the NHL’s most volatile and prolific offenses. They average around 31⁄2 goals per game. That’s a pace few, if any, other teams can match. But if it seems like even this exceptionally gifted group doesn’t produce as many goals as some of its predecessors, well, there’s a pretty good reason for that.
Consider that 25 seasons ago, when the Penguins were en route to the franchise’s second Stanley Cup, they scored an average of 4.29 per game.
That’s nearly one per game more than the current club.
But it’s not necessarily only because the 1991-92 squad — which featured the likes of Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Ron Francis, Joe Mullen and Kevin Stevens, among others — had an edge in depth and overall skill.