If not inevitable, changes are certainly likely.
Talk to general manager Jim Rutherford about the state of the Penguins, and that conclusion isn’t hard to draw. But changes involving whom? How do those supposed changes occur?
That’s what gets people talking, the sort of stuff that will keep Rutherford busy this summer and potentially shape how the Penguins will look during the next handful of years.
Roughly three weeks until the start of free agency and fewer than two until the NHL Draft, here’s a look at the issues on Rutherford’s plate.
The layups
Negotiations have commenced with the Penguins’ NHL-level restricted free agents, Rutherford said.