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Question: Now that it's all said and done with and we've won the Cup, do you see the organization looking to pick up a fresh face, maybe a scoring winger, or committing more of the cap space to the players already on the team?

Justin, Hubert, N.C.

MOLINARI: Personnel turnover is pretty much inevitable, regardless of the success a team has in a given season, and the lineup the Penguins deploy for Game 1 of the 2009-10 regular season will not be the same one they used for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.

General manager Ray Shero and his staff have had meetings to discuss the makeup of next season's team -- at least, what they would like it to be -- but it appears that no decisions have been finalized. And even when the front office does finalize a list of free agents (its own and others) it would like to sign, there's no guarantee it will be able to do so.

What's more, Shero has to be flexible, because circumstances change, and a player once deemed a priority can become less of one if an upgrade at his position becomes available, and a guy who seemed expendable can have his value rise if players ahead of him on the priority list end up elsewhere.

Settling on wingers to play with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin has to high on Shero's to-do list -- several guys who filled those roles, like Bill Guerin, Ruslan Fedotenko and Petr Sykora, will be unrestricted free agents July 1 -- but he, as always, must consider the salary-cap implications of any contract he offers. Because the Penguins have so much money committed to their core of young talent, Shero seems unlikely to get involved in the bidding for any big-money wingers who might be available.

Shero has proven willing to make tough decisions by declining to match offers guys like Jarkko Ruutu received elsewhere when he didn't think it was good business, and there's no reason to think he'll stray from that. In light of the parade that's scheduled for this afternoon, it's hard to argue with the way Shero has done his job.

Question:Does Michael Therrien get to spend any time with the Cup, although the coaching change (along with having Sergei Gonchar return plus the deadline acquisitions) were catalysts for the Penguins peaking at the right time of the year? His contributions during his time with the team should not be forgotten.

Jim Kramer, Chicago

MOLINARI: As a general rule, if you're not part of an organization at the time it wins a championship, you're not going to get your name on the Cup, let alone the opportunity to have possession of it for a day or two. (One obvious exception is former Penguins assistant general manager Chuck Fletcher, who was named GM of the Minnesota Wild a few weeks ago and took over that job immediately. In that instance, Fletcher had made all of the contributions to the Penguins' title run that an assistant GM could by the time he went to Minnesota.)

As has been mentioned several times in the Q&A, there's no question that Therrien contributed to what the Penguins accomplished. He added badly needed structure to the team and laid the foundation for the solid team defense they play. At the same time, he alienated some players -- and, in the process, hurt their performance -- with the way he treated them, and stifled their offensive potential by playing a more conservative style than that employed by Dan Bylsma, who replaced him in mid-February.

On balance, the Penguins benefited from having had Therrien as coach, but they almost certainly wouldn't have won the Cup if he'd held onto the job.

Question:Maybe now is really the time to dump Marc-Andre Fleury. He never makes clutch saves in elimination games or stonewalls good offensive teams like Detroit when it matters. So he was the deciding factor in his team winning the Stanley Cup, you say? Great, maybe that means the Pens will get a good value for him. Who knows, they may even acquire another young goaltender with as much potential for improvement as ??? Marc-Andre Fleury.

Sean, Greensburg

MOLINARI: Perhaps Shero could find a sucker out there to take Fleury off his hands if he looks really, really hard, but one has to believe that Shero would have to give up a lot more than just Fleury to get a 24-year-old goaltender the caliber of Fleury.