It is probably a very fair assessment at this point to say that the 2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins are not a very good hockey team. They have problems. They have flaws. They have weaknesses.
When the season began expectations were probably as low as they have been in over two decades, especially after back-to-back years out of the playoffs and with zero playoff series wins since the 2017-18 season. This should not be totally unexpected. After nearly two decades on top — and honestly, it has been more than 30 years on top with only a few individual exception seasons mixed in — it is inevitable that some struggles will start to happen.