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Kovacevic: The Penguins are barely recognizable anymore, my friends ... and it isn't just at ice level

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It's not so much that I no longer know what I'm watching.

It's that I don't know who I'm watching.

Other than this: They sure as hell aren't Pittsburgh's Penguins, a civic treasure and the NHL's marquee American franchise. Not anymore.

And they haven't been for, oh, 476 days now, by my count. Marking to the day, of course, that the Boston bean-counters at Fenway Sports Group bought the team as an a la carte item on a menu headlined by acres of heady Uptown real estate. And then, from there, proceeded to operate on absentee basis as Ron Hextall, overseen by Brian Burke, grotesquely mismanaged assets to the point that .