Just 22 months removed from becoming the first team in a generation to win consecutive championships, captain Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Pens are facing their longest off-season in 13 years.
All four have had highly successful careers and were integral parts of the core group that raised two Stanley Cup banners to the rafters at PPG Paints Arena. All four, however, also have a penchant for taking risks, gambles they could afford to make because their talent often helped them recover when those gambles went awry.
Crosby — who will be in the conversation for the Selke Trophy given annually to the league’s top defensive forward — insists his longtime teammates can adapt. "At the end of the day, yeah, I wish I could have done something else at different times, but I don’t think the question is to change my whole game," Letang said. "I’m not going to change three plays in my whole year for the type of game I play."
"The challenge is to make sure that there’s 100 per cent buy-in throughout the lineup," Sullivan said. "I think the area of our identity that we lost a little bit is the hard-to-play-against aspect."Rutherford defended the play of his defenders, Erik Gudbranson and Jack Johnson specifically. Both are big bodies not known for their skating.
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