It’s officially the week of the NHL draft and now that the games are over on the ice, the important off-ice matters are about to pick up.
A lot of the talk is the same: the Pittsburgh Penguins are one of the few sellers out there and they are taking calls on several veteran pieces.
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman got the ball rolling on Friday in his 32 Thoughts blog:
12. Pittsburgh is the NHL’s salmon, swimming against the stream. The Penguins entered the big rebuild; everyone else is trying to get better.