PITTSBURGH — It wasn’t the news Pittsburgh was waiting for, but Kyle Dubas had an unusually busy day for the middle of August. Hours following an unorthodox trade of draft picks with the St. Louis Blues, the Penguins acquired forward Cody Glass from the salary cap-stricken Nashville Predators.
Penguins fans have been waiting for more than a month to hear the expected news of a Sidney Crosby contract extension. There’s no news on that front, but Dubas, the Penguins’ general manager and president of hockey operations, was busy on Tuesday.
To sweeten the deal and subsequently...