The Penguins have answered a lot of questions in the past few months.
No, they don’t seem too worn-out from back-to-back championship runs to go after a third consecutive Stanley Cup.
Yes, Jim Rutherford had one more move up his sleeve, acquiring Derick Brassard in a trade deadline coup to fill the third-line center gap.
But for as much as the Penguins appear to have turned their season around from where they were around Christmas, they still have a long way to go before they’re lifting that big silver trophy again this June.
So with the postseason a month away, here are five questions the Penguins still have to answer before the regular season ends and their Stanley Cup defense begins in earnest:
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