Trending Penguins Players: Knowing when it’s time to move on

This week the Pittsburgh Penguins, obviously in need of some kind of a shake up, parted ways with Carl Hagelin in a trade with the Los Angeles Kings.

When it comes to what you see in the box score it is far from an earth-shattering trade. He had three points even though he spent most of the year in a top-six role skating next to a top-10 player in the league. Not great! But it was still a bit of a shock given what Hagelin had meant to the Penguins over the past three years and how much success he had here.

He was a key figure on back-to-back Stanley Cup winning teams.

He personified what the team was.

He helped make the players around him better by doing a lot of grunt work that often times…