Entering the 2018 offseason, the Penguins are facing very little in the way of unrestricted free agents. There are a handful of players heading to restricted free agency, but the Penguins have a bit more say when it comes to whether those guys stay or leave. The team’s only unrestricted free agent at the moment is Carter Rowney, and he’s not expected to return.
There could have been a second player heading to unrestricted free agency, but Jim Rutherford stepped in to make sure that didn’t happen by re-signing forward Patric Hornqvist to a five-year contract extension in late February.