The Pittsburgh Penguins are a star-led team with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin as the primary key players on the team, and also in the locker room. However, if you go back throughout history, when the Pens have had success, they’ve usually been insulated with secondary types of key leadership.
Talking about intangibles is difficult since, by definition, you can’t exactly quantify just what or how personalities will mesh as a group of people band together in an effort to seek a common goal. But having that added, special “extra” batch of leaders and personalities matters.