Frank Seravalli

It could be some kind of special advisor.

But I think regardless, your point is really well made that no matter what, there's going to be a massive catch-up required, even as someone who is, just like Trevor Linden, not insanely far removed from playing.

But living in Sweden, it's almost impossible to follow the NHL on a night-to-night basis given the time the games are played.

So unless you're really waking up and watching hours of video, you're missing every game for the most part unless it's a weekend afternoon game.

And I can't imagine that that person, even with a Hall of Fame-level caliber career, would think that they have enough knowledge or foresight to

to step into a role of that magnitude without having to put in a lot of time to catch up.

Probably nothing.

The Penguins weren't really expected to make the playoffs this year.

And if you rewind back to, and this is kind of what made me laugh as everyone was trying to laud Kyle Dubas as general manager of the year, is that even he himself in his preparation for this season, in hiring Dan Mews and in putting the roster together,

He didn't do anything to try and put this team over the top.

Did he make some really smart additions from Shinnokov to some smart bets that they added to their roster?

Anthony Manta as a reclamation project, for instance?

Yeah, of course.

But he didn't come into this with any expectations.

He thought and Pittsburgh and Calgary both thought that they were toward the bottom of the barrel in the league and they were the only teams not trying to actively improve last summer.

And so now what happens to the Penguins moving forward?

If that indeed happens, my thought process is plan as usual.

That at some point this team is going to have to turn over a new leaf and it's going to be at the direction of Sidney Crosby and Chris Letang and Evgeny Malkin.

What happens with Malkin needing a new contract?

All those things sort of loom large.