Crosby recently signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him with the club until at least 2027.
FILE - Pittsburgh Penguins ' Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang play in an NHL hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. “Close doesn’t get you anywhere,” Pittsburgh’s longtime captain said Wednesday shortly after beginning his 20th NHL training camp.
The future Hall of Famer is hopeful it won’t take that long for Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas to retool around the team’s venerable core of Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang. He saw signs of it over the final month of last season when newcomers like forward Michael Bunting — acquired in a trade with Carolina that“I think there’s a little momentum to build off of there,” Crosby said. “I think if you look at the year before, our game was probably trending the other way.
The team fired assistant Todd Reirden, who oversaw a 30th-ranked power play that was an anchor that sank its season. Goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic, whose stirring play over the second half of the season helped key that late push, remembers a team meeting during the middle of last season where the Penguins seemed baffled about how hot and cold they were running.
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