Justin Schultz is the poster child for the Pittsburgh Penguins defense reconstruction unit.
By now, you know what that means.
Their ability to take somebody else’s broken player, turn them into something useful, and get a treasure out of another team’s trash.
Every defensemen that gets acquired by the Penguins is usually analyzed within this context.
“Just look at what they did with Justin Schultz...”
There was a time where I bought into that mindset, but with each passing season and with the current state of the defense I’m not sure I do (or that anyone should) because for every Schultz, there’s an Oleksiak that they didn’t really fix.