It has been a big week for Pittsburgh Penguins winger Brandon Tanev. Over the previous five games he has scored two game winning goals (Montreal and Vegas), one late game-tying goal to help set up another win (Arizona), and continues to be a part of the team’s dominant shutdown defensive line alongside Teddy Blueger and Zach Aston-Reese.
By doing so, he continues to make a lot of people (like me) that were initially critical of his contract look kind of dumb. He has been outstanding, and everything the Penguins could have possibly hoped for him to be.