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Mike Sullivan Outlines Bold New Vision for Penguins' Roster Overhaul
The Penguins have plenty of options to build their roster moving forward, and now Mike Sullivan has opened up on discussions with Kyle Dubas about how to do it.
For the third straight season, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs race, and with veterans like Sidney Crosby still around, many believe this team shouldn't be wasting his final years in the NHL.
With plenty of cap space and some future assets, there's ways that this team can go about building for the future while also looking to contend in Crosby's final seasons, and according to Head Coach Mike Sullivan, the team of No. 87's biggest career rival could be a team to replicate.
We've certainly had discussions about where we're at and strategizing on where we want to go and how to get there. And there's different ways to do that. There are some teams that want to strip the team right down to the studs. That's one strategy.
There's others that have reshaped their teams on the fly, Washington is one example of that. There's a number of those examples. I know Kyle's done a deep dive on all of those different examples, and then looking at our team and trying to strategize as a group on what makes the most sense for this organization and where we're at right now and how to return this group to a Stanley Cup contender and a competitive organization.
I guess that's a long-winded answer, but the answer is yes, we have had those discussions over teh last year plus on what it should look like and what, potentially we're able to do and how we're going to go about doing it.
There's others that have reshaped their teams on the fly, Washington is one example of that. There's a number of those examples. I know Kyle's done a deep dive on all of those different examples, and then looking at our team and trying to strategize as a group on what makes the most sense for this organization and where we're at right now and how to return this group to a Stanley Cup contender and a competitive organization.
I guess that's a long-winded answer, but the answer is yes, we have had those discussions over teh last year plus on what it should look like and what, potentially we're able to do and how we're going to go about doing it.
Like Sullivan said, to make a long story short, it appears as though the goal is to get the team back to being a Stanley Cup contender while Sidney Crosby remains the captain, and given how quickly Washington turned things around, there's no reason why the Penguins can't do the same.
It will involve hitting on some major trades and perhaps giving up players/picks that the fans don't want too, but if done right, there's a way for this team to get back to being a contender in the very near future.
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