What a difference six months makes.
Take a minute and think back to October, before the puck dropped on opening night for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Think about what the predictions were for this season.
All summer long, Penguins fans were bombarded left, right, and center from outside voices clamoring for a trade of captain Sidney Crosby. Evgeni Malkin was entering perhaps his farewell season, a somber reminder of how old we are all collectively getting.
And the Penguins had made another shift towards the future. During that summer, Pittsburgh had three first-round picks at the draft for the first time since Mario Lemieux’s draft year in 1984.
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