Mitch Marner: Pipe dream or realistic possibility for the Penguins?

Photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesKyle Dubas has been tending to use a curious word often when it comes to his intended timeline towards getting the Penguins back into contention.

“We want to operate as urgently as we can to return the team there.,” Dubas said in February. “We don’t want to buy patience or say, ‘It’s in X amount of years, (the) plan in Year X, we hope to be at different points.’”

The same word popped up again in April.

“When I say as urgently as possible,” Dubas said in his season ending press conference, “I try not to put a timeline on it because I don’t want to be a perpetual and evergreen conference when we come in and say ‘Ah, we’re a year or two or so…