Penguins embrace offseason cliche, quickly hit golf course

The old cliche about hockey players heading straight to the golf course after their teams are eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs appears to apply to the Penguins pretty perfectly.

A group of them showed up at Cranberry Highlands Golf Course after cleaning out their lockers Wednesday, and they got pretty into it on the first official day of their offseason.

Course pro Shawn McCall wrote in an Instagram post: “So I'm coming off the course from my lesson with Jacob (he’s 8) to find after their round, [the Penguins] sat by No. 6 green (a par 3) and screamed and cheered for everybody who knocked it on. They even took turns tending the pin once people were on the green. Nicest group of guys…