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Biggest concern: There are too many defensive and goaltending issues to list. Pittsburgh gave up the third-most goals last season (3.50 per game) behind an abysmal blue line that didn’t get enough help from Pittsburgh’s forwards to be of any advantage to their poor goaltending. The tandem of Tristan Jarry and Alex Nedeljkovic had no clear-cut starter and produced an .893 SV% and .894 SV%, respectively.
Nedeljkovic is now in San Jose, and his replacement Arturs Silovs will be working again with Jarry. That’s quite a gamble by the Penguins if they expect any sort of improvement in net. Jarry spent time in the AHL last season as he worked through some struggles, and Silovs comes with just 19 NHL appearances to his name. Pittsburgh will have its work cut out for them keeping opponents at bay.
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