Kris Letang’s Next Trick Could Decide Pittsburgh’s Blue Line

Kris Letang has been one of those Penguins fixtures who makes the room breathe a little easier, but time in this league comes for everybody except maybe the cap sheet. The real question is not whether he still has hockey sense - that part usually ages better than the legs - but how much of his old two-way bite remains when Pittsburgh needs it most. This is the kind of veteran evaluation front offices dread because the name still carries weight, yet the tape has to do the talking.