When newly acquired defenseman Mark Streit first stepped onto the PPG Paints Arena ice on Friday night, he made instant history.
Over the years, the Penguins have featured foreign-born players from a virtual melting pot of nationalities, including Czechs, Germans (Tom Kuhnhackl), Latvians (Peter Skudra), Lithuanians (Darius Kasparaitis), Poles (Nick Harbaruk), Russians, South Koreans (Jim Paek), Slovaks and Ukrainians (Alexei Ponikarovsky). Brits, too (Peter Lee).
Heck, Craig Adams hailed from exotic Brunei Darussalam.
Never in its 50-year history, however, has the club boasted a player from Switzerland.