Evaluating Penguins’ Free Agent Class of 2023 (+)

Most of the drama of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ offseason should be behind them now.

Oh, there still figures to be another personnel move or two — Ron Hextall will have to do something about the surplus defensemen on his NHL depth chart — but the summer’s dominant storylines have played out.

A few months ago, there was rampant uncertainty about the Penguins’ ability to re-sign high-profile free agents Kris Letang, Evgeni Malkin, Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell. Along with wildly divergent opinions about the wisdom of even trying to do so.