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NHL Burning Questions: Pittsburgh Penguins

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You’re reading another weekend edition of THN.com’s Burning Questions files, an ongoing series in which we ask three important questions about every NHL team. In today’s file, we’ve got Three Burning Questions about the Pittsburgh Penguins.

THREE BURNING QUESTIONS FOR THE PENGUINS IN 2022-23:

1. How much longer does the Pens’ aging core have as a playoff-worthy group? It’s never advisable to suggest talents like those of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang are going to sag and go weakly into the night, but all three Penguins superstars are now either 35 or 36 years old, and as we all know, Father Time is, eventually, not kind. Pittsburgh head coach Mike Sullivan is fortunate to have younger elite forwards in Jake Guentzel (27), Rickard Rakell (29), and Bryan Rust (30), the reality in Pittsburgh is this is an older team (that includes 37-year-old Jeff Carter and 34-year-old defenseman/new acquisition Jeff Petry), and a new generation of young stars have not appeared on the horizon for them.

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