Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang know sticking with one team is 'pretty rare' these days
Before the Penguins open the 2017-18 season Wednesday against the St. Louis Blues, a variety of things will have happened, none of them involving a fifth Stanley Cup banner hanging from the PPG Paints Arena rafters.
Sidney Crosby will have stickhandled around the McDonald’s “M” that’s painted on the ice. Evgeni Malkin will have ended warm-up by jokingly shooting a puck at head athletic trainer Chris Stewart. And Kris Letang will have done a couple torrid, Tasmanian Devil-style sprints around the Penguins’ zone in anticipation of the opening faceoff.