Jim Rutherford oversees a team with lots of experience and achievements.
Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang have earned three Stanley Cup rings with the Penguins, and a handful of their teammates own a couple.
Most guys on the major-league roster have been through the professional crucible that is the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the 2019-20 season has given the group numerous opportunities -- many more than it likely wanted -- to prove that it can not only cope with, but overcome, severe adversity.
The Penguins would seem, at first blush, to be the kind of team that should fare well if the NHL, as expected, goes directly from the extended shutdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic to the ferocious competition for the Stanley Cup.