By now in the middle of July, most off-season business is concluded around the NHL as the league looks to ride out a hot summer and wait for fall to mercifully bring cooler temps and the return of hockey. Teams may have a stray restricted free agent or two to tighten up, but with the draft complete and the free agent frenzy all but settled, the majority of tasks to accomplish have been completed.
But that doesn’t mean that the action is completed. For the Penguins, it’s certainly not. Their tight salary cap situation will dictate that someone on their NHL roster making a fairly decent-sized paycheck will have to be traded.