Each year has its good and bad moments, and 2016 was no exception.
But for the Pittsburgh Penguins, 2016 was undeniably a fantastic year and, well, I’ll let Carl Hagelin take it from here.
Yeah... yeah, that’ll do.
As it stands right now, we’re only a couple of hours into 2017; it stands clean before us, a blank canvas of hope. But that hope, for the Penguins, is pretty realistic; they enter 2017 coming off of another win, with the second best record in the NHL at 25-8-5 and 55 points.
It’s been almost 20 years since a Stanley Cup Champion last repeated. If there’s any team that just might be able to win back-to-back, though - to make 2017 as special as 2016 was, as Hagelin put it - then it’s probably this one.
So here’s to the year that was - and here’s to the year that’s coming up. May it be just as good to the Penguins as 2016!