As soon as Kyle Dubas took up his post with the Penguins as President of Hockey Operations, he was naturally quizzed by reporters. The latter wondered whether the new boss intended to trade any of his star players, namely Sidney Crosby, Evgeny Malkin and Kristopher Letang. His answer was unequivocal: <q>The way I look at it is, if people want to bet against Mike Sullivan, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and others, they can go ahead and do that, but I'm going to bet on them and go ahead with them here. I think this is a group capable of fighting to win a championship. - Kyle Dubas</q> <blockquote class=twitter-tweet><p lang=en dir=ltr>Betting on our talent. <a href=https://t.co/9ILObIq3Xm>pic.twitter.com/9ILObIq3Xm</a>- Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=https://twitter.com/penguins/status/1664328838069854209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>June 1, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src=https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js charset=utf-8> In other words, there won't be any major changes on the Pittsburgh side in the short term. In fact, management will do everything in its power to surround these three players and build a winning team once again.