The Pittsburgh Penguins dealing with a magnitude of injuries is nothing new. The team has shown over the years they are equipped to deal with them in the short-term.
Pittsburgh already missing Kris Letang, Trevor Daley, Olli Maatta, Carl Hagelin, and Bryan Rust to long-term injuries, will get Patric Hornqvist (concussion) back in the lineup tonight, but the injury report got even longer as Evgeni Malkin and Ron Hainsey are out tonight.
Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan said this morning that Malkin who participated briefly in the morning skate, has been dealing with an upper body injury for a while.
Malkin last season dealt with a serious left elbow injury that sidelined him for the final month of the regular season and hindered him throughout the playoffs where surgery in the summer was being mulled to fully correct the issue.
“We will know more soon,” Sullivan said this morning of Malkin’s injury.
What the Penguins do know is they’ll likely be getting Olli Maatta and Trevor Daley back before the playoffs, late March/first week of April has been a target date for both, and the initial belief is Ron Hainsey has a 2-3 week injury at the max and he should be back.
Outside of those three, the Penguins don’t know for sure yet on the rest of the field.
— Bryan Rust injured on February 9, will miss his 17th straight game tonight, and the talk around the deadline a few weeks ago was that his return to the lineup would be around 8-10 weeks from the time he was injured. Rust has what’s been described as a tricky injury and the bit of uncertainty with Rust last month is one reason the Penguins kicked some tires on Patrick Eaves at the deadline, and looked very hard at Jannik Hansen, though, Hansen was not a rental.
— Carl Hagelin injured on March 10, is out a “minimum” of four weeks and the Penguins will have a better idea in about two weeks if the injury is around four weeks or closer to six-seven weeks, per sources.
— With the playoffs less than four weeks away, the main thing that matters is Kris Letang’s long-term health and whether he’s going to be there for the start of the post-season and won’t be limited.
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What a pass by Phil. Aka “chubby”
And there are 5 more years left on LeContract. Barf.
So it does look like Malkins injury was directly related to the blocked shots. Guy sacrificed himself for the team then sammich comes out to shitt on him… class act #SnowFrogfromFakeCanada
where’s yodirt?
The beauty part about Sam’s thumbs down count is that he already starts in the positive due to his second account.
There’s the two in question.
D, thanks for the quick update on wvu hoops. They’re pretty popular on this site….
Sestito with the game winning assist.
I like how people on this board trash penguins solely because others like them. With same though, he’s just too stupid make sense of anything and whatever comes out, comes out.
Come back in April moron
Must be stupid or blind you have npl and stain making remarks about sid yet only thing you see is my remark about Murray
Typical liberal when things don’t please them they call it racist you are in same category type of those clowns. Now take that agenda of yours turn that somebitch sideways and stick it straight up your monkey asss
Tbj, npl and shitstain you 3 amigos or should I call you 3 Jabronis bring nothing to this other then Hate and have personal agenda on every member on this site..
All 3 of you bandwagons have in common are dumb Democrats, all 3 are fat lazy slobs and your hockey only starts in April .
Now Thumbs Down this mothaFuckaa
Hockey in Canada ends in April.
I like when the board bigot lectures the people about hate. Sam is the best.
Now I am not trying to coerce anyone but I do wanna remind the board that when sam “asks” for the thumbs down he usually does pretty well…. lets not end this here
“typical liberal when things dont please them they call you racist” – coming from the idiot that spouts bigoted racist bullshit out here everyday and is very prone to hyperbole with every interaction. lol…. keep on sammiching sammich
It’s really is true, sam is the catalyst for this crap. Letang and Crosby are my two favourite players in the game. Mario, french Canadian, alltime. It’s simply to point out how stupid sam looks when he is shitting on a great player like Malkin simply because he is Russian or Kessel because he is American. Same thing with the MAF vs Murray arguments. Despite Murrays rough patch here he is still the future of the team, MAF is having a horrible year overall.. had that utter meltdown in 2012 and 2013 but he has also won and until this… Read more »
Magic number is officially 5 when Murray is in net
Fleury traded yet?
Pens might need six to win.
Murray completely bailed out there… god yoda youre acuntt
Magic number if 5 now fuckhead…
I think Murray’s progressing good used to be 4. Now lately it’s been 5 the new magic number
That GAA keeps climbing
Letang has been quiet tonight.
So is your Russian
It’s hilarious when you thumbs up yourself from your other account.
Yeah, Murray has been crappy!!
I think new magic number is 5 in order to win for Murray
Where is Yoda
This is perfect… Bennett scores, FUCKYOU Sam… and now the Pens need at least 4 to win… wont have to see yoda post for another few days
BONES… heating up at the right time
The best part… he had a near identical year this season to last until the last 4 or 5… now he is badly eclipsing his last year, still mad at him bro’s? sammiches?
Bennett Injured yet?
Letang injured yet?
Sid, the PP specialist!!
Can my prophet predict for me how many goals the Pens will need for a win tonight?
Kessel coming up clutch again
Nice to see him take the lead with the captain out tonight
You must not watched tonight’s game due to working overtime at KFC
Because last I checked pens captain was playing tonight and carried the team to a victory and gave your goalie the W
Only the best player in the world can score on a 5 on 3 powerplay and empty net goal.
While having it pale in comparison to the 6 chances he blew.
Pens should listen to you and your other Fat buddy of yours npl
They should Strip that C from Crosby’s Jersey and trade him.
Only in Pittsburgh you get bandwagon morons that wants the best player in the world be traded.
Thats a lie. Ive never advocated for Malkin to be traded.