PenguinPoop · 14m
Are the Penguins Facing a Bleak Future?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the Penguins’ future lately. I’ll be honest, it scares me.
The reason for my trepidation is rooted in another team’s struggles.
Like our Pens, the Chicago Blackhawks won three Stanley Cups in the first two decades of the new millennium. After suffering first-round exits in the two seasons immediately following their last Cup in 2015, the Blackhawks began a retool/rebuild on the fly. They missed the playoffs for two consecutive seasons, then appeared to right the ship by qualifying for the postseason in ’19-20.