After keeping the list largely intact over the past few seasons, Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford said Wednesday that there will be changes in the offseason.
The changes will not affect the core of the team, which saw its dreams of the third regular Stanley Cup on Monday in Washington, DC, but Rutherford said the change is necessary.
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"I think it's obvious that I will keep in mind to make some changes, and I will make some changes," Rutherford told reporters. "I can not give you a definite answer, who will be now, and what positions, but we are a good team. We will be a good team in the future.
"I think it's fair to say that by the time we open the next season, it will be a different team. This does not mean that there will be radical changes and many changes, but there will be changes in the areas that will become necessary. "
While Rutherford is looking ahead, failure with Washington gave Sidney Crosby and Co a chance to put his remarkable run at the top of the league in perspective.
No team in the generation won the consecutive Cups until Pittsburgh did it last spring and the Penguins reached 1999 Detroit Red Wings and Mario Lemieux led by the 1993 Penguins in their own quest for three peat.
"I think that this definitely gives you a great appreciation of how many times he could have gone the other way in a pretty good move."
In the playoffs margin is always a razor. And the penguins somehow found a way to land on the right side of things in nine playoffs over three springs.
Nevertheless, against the Capitals, rebounds - and often energy - have gone another way.
Twice Pittsburgh blew up the third phase of leadership in regulation - something that never happened during the regular season.
Goalkeeper Matt Murray was usually crispy, but not dominant. The depth of clogging, because of which the penguins were incredibly tough, this time disappeared. Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel did not mention the point of view even against Washington.
Penguins played down the notion that they just ran out of gas after playing more hockey than any other club in the last 32 months.
Perhaps, but there is sufficient evidence that the NHL caught up with the team that built itself up on a quick lightning aggression when Mike Sullivan took over as head coach in December 2015.
Now it's time for Pittsburgh to spend the offseason, trying to get this extra outfit back.
"We are a good team," Rutherford said. "And we will be a good team in the future. We will have a chance to win again. We have a kernel to do this, and we also have parts that are players that other teams will want, I'm going to make these changes. "
How? Let's take a look back and look forward, while the penguins spent the rest of the playoffs, watching the pursuit of the Cup on TV, if they ever look at it.
A newcomer in the penguins of Zach Aston-Reese, who broke his jaw and suffered a concussion after Washington's illegal strike by Tom Wilson in Game 2 and currently has a lot of ice cream, having evaded when asked if enough was suspended three games Wilson got, but does I feel that this was a positive step.
"I think that they are trying to get rid of, and I think that the guys should be slightly more aware and have more control over their body when they enter and will have such hits," said Aston-Rees,
"He will be regular in our team," Rutherford said.
So will Rutherford. The 69-year-old GM famously said that there could be only about a few seasons when he captured the spring of 2014. Now it seems that he did not go anywhere.
"I think the best answer is: I can be longer than you guys," he said with a laugh.
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