During the NHL Draft, Penguins President of Hockey Operations and GM Kyle Dubas spoke about Pittsburgh\u2019s \u201cbrick-by-boring-brick\u201d approach to the current landscape. They stuck to that over the next few days, through NHL free agency, which opened at noon on July 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think for us, we\u2019re trying to stay disciplined in our approach,\u201d said Jason Spezza, Penguins Assistant GM and Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton GM. \u201cI think we have a plan and obviously, there\u2019s the veteran group and players that want us to keep pushing and continue to add players. We have to make sure we continue to have room for young guys to come in.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us, it\u2019s making sure that we\u2019re being really smart with what we\u2019re doing at this point. I think we feel like we\u2019re a strong team now and getting even stronger as we add players. But not really making long-term commitments to guys and doing things we regret in years\u2019 past. Everything we do is thought out. Everything we do is with an eye on now but also the future, as well. That\u2019s where we\u2019re at with things.\u201d<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean the Penguins are not in the mix when it comes to the big names and big trades. While right now is the busiest time of the\u00a0offseason, the puck doesn\u2019t drop until September.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always out there looking and in conversation for bigger things to happen, making sure that we have the ability to do that,\u201d Spezza said. \u201cBut while we\u2019re doing that, we\u2019re not going to just sit around and wait. We\u2019re going to try to continually upgrade the team and that\u2019s what we feel like we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the NHL Draft, Penguins President of Hockey Operations and GM Kyle Dubas spoke about Pittsburgh\u2019s \u201cbrick-by-boring-brick\u201d approach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-233390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}