Penguins’ mid-summer off-season checklist

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesA few more weeks have ticked by since our last summer checklist for key decisions the Pittsburgh Penguins have on their docket, so let’s go back and see what has gone on, and what is yet to come as hockey enters what traditionally is its dead period of August.

Step 5: Name assistant coaches

It’ll be interesting to see the first staff that Muse gets together for the upcoming season

It’s an eclectic group that will be coaching the Pens this season. Dan Muse got the chance for seemingly one hire on his own and added Nick Bonino from his past in Nashville and New York as the rare player-to-NHL-coach transition. Bonino’s obvious past with the Pens and the veteran…