Two players with extremely short-term ties to the Penguins (Jarome Iginla and Marian Hossa) were announced as part of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s class of 2020, the delayed and latest class on record with no 2021 class to be announced. Who will be the next to go in?
There’s no drama at all that Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are both only retirement plus the three year waiting period away from their inductions. Hopefully that won’t be a thought for many years, so other than them who will it be?
The first era of the Penguins’ Stanley Cup champions (1991, 1992) saw seven eventual Hockey Hall of Fame players (Mario Lemieux, Bryan Trottier, Joe Mullen, Paul Coffey, Larry Murphy, Ron Francis and Mark Recchi) as well as three builders (Scotty Bowman, Bob Johnson, Craig Patrick).