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We just watched the worst three-game stretch of the Sidney Crosby era

The one thing I am still struggling to wrap my head around this season is how the Pittsburgh Penguins went into the offseason with more than $20 million in salary cap space and still managed to build what might be one of the worst teams of the Sidney Crosby era around him.

Crosby is still great!

They had some salary cap flexibility!

But everything has simply gone wrong, from offseason additions not fitting the way anybody hoped, to Evgeni Malkin aging five years in one offseason, to Rickard Rakell forgetting how to score goals .