Trevor Daley’s hands started shaking. Then, the former Penguins defenseman who was nearly as quotable as he was impactful on their past two Stanley Cup-winning teams, began stammering, too.
The question was whether Daley, who was an unrestricted free agent, was ever truly close to returning to Pittsburgh this summer.
Mentally, yeah. But the business side didn’t match.
“It’s the way it works,” Daley said. “It’s … it’s not always, um … not always the way you want it to go, but ... um, you have to make decisions to make sure that you and your family are happy.