Penguins/NHL
Monday’s Practice Buzz
An emotional Matt Murray thanked the Penguins organization, teammates and fans for the support he’s received since the passing of his father.
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“I just want to say a big thanks, first of all, to Pittsburgh,” Murray said with tears in his eyes after practice. “The team did a lot for me, helping me get home. I also want to say thanks to my teammates.”
Every grieves at their own pace and the Penguins told Murray to take as much time as he needed.
Murray: “Hockey definitely took a back seat for a couple days, but when you’re out there, it’s kind of a sanctuary.” pic.twitter.com/OFBO3J6sdD
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) January 22, 2018
From coaches to teammates, everyone was thrilled to see Murray back at the rink.
“It’s great to see him back on the ice,” Sullivan said. “We’re just trying to support him in any way that we can. It’s a difficult circumstance, it’s hard to lose a parent and it’s a difficult time. Everybody grieves differently. We’re just trying to be here and be supportive of him in any way that we can.”
Murray’s status for Tuesday night is still unknown as Mike Sullivan told reporters he would have a discussion with Matt this afternoon regarding tomorrow’s game.
All three goaltenders practiced today. Casey DeSmith has started the past two games, posting a .954 save percentage.
The Penguins have two home games remaining before the All-Star break vs Carolina and Minnesota.
I think we’ll see Murray in at least one of them before the break.
“We have some important games coming up,” said Murray.
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Sprong headed back to WBS, Rust expected to play before All-Star break
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Sam… why do you have so many thumbs up when your posts are incoherent and are a blatant attack on English? Is it Stan you think?
Thumbs up are his life. He saves his allowance so he can add accounts. Poor little chubster.
Because you and your thumbs down crew were absent
See that still makes no sense… The only one missing is stan and yet you are still getting your customary 2 – 3 thumbs up with every single incoherent post you make. This is the equivalent of the lion licking its own balls meme on facebook. Sam likes everyone of his own posts through multiple accounts and tries to pass it off like he has fans haha
Remember when the Pens blew Sprongs entry contract year. Seems like a lifetime ago….
Remember when sam’s mom blew 37 guys, in a row?
I remember you are still an average bandwagon fan
37?…. (Kevin Smith fan? lol)
Sullivan and Guerin are going to void this organization of all talent. I guess it will be fun watching hard working guys who have no skill. We’ll be thr New York Rangers after the Malkin and Crosby era.
Sprong is a goner. A team that can’t score 5-5 doesnt send their only blue-chip forward prospect back down to the minors at this point in time. If the Pens are under the illusion they can complete for the Cup this year then they have two legit trade chips – Sprong and Maatta.
Criminal that Ruhwedel can’t get back in the line up. Pens have nothing to lose. Go with Oleksiak-Ruhwedel as 5/6 pairing.
What did Cole do? They have to know healthy scratching him this long is killing any trade value he once had.
There is NO WAY. He is worse than Hunwick…just don’t get it.
Now he has no more value what a poor management
He demanded a trade.
GMJR brought in Hunwick, benching him would be an admission the signing was a mistake.
sprong back to ahl ? I thought he was the next Savior for pens .wonder what Ztool thinks
Honest question Sam…would you rather have him I’m the lineup or Reaves/Kuhnhackl?
You have. I choice to play reaves this season. Pens gave a 1st round pick for him and if they healthy scratch him it won’t look good on the organization but I expect next year reaves have games scratched
That’s just a stupid question Sprong looked so loss out there was incredible. His play at best was miserable. He’s not ready don’t throw him under the bus hopefully he will understand he’s not ready. Not going to rehash the pussy arguments again. However you do know there are things called killing penalties in hockey and Kuhnhackl might be on of the better ones at it. For sure on this team.
Sprongs still raw, he had flashes of brilliance but ya he needs more seasoning in the A.
According to Ztool you have to only score goals in order to be considered a hockey player.
Sam thinks hockey can be played by just skating around the ice with a puck.. or without one. Do you watch competitive figure skating at the Olympics only to get upset when they don’t show you the final score?
Sheary too looks lost on most nights
Needs more experience
How long he needs experience I have a feeling he will be a bust
He hasn’t even played 30 games yet you fucken retard. Kid missed an entire season due to shoulder surgery like two years back as well. You really are fucken stupid… I guess we need a guy whose barely a 30 point man like Nash now because he’s played 1000 games? Maybe we can wait till he retires like you did with St Louis
Whether or not Sprong pans out can be debated but not by you because you don’t know what’s going on out there
Agreed. Play him every game and let him work things out. I just hope they don’t screw with him like Pouliot. He’s our best offensive prospect and we need goals. There’s so excuse for playing some of these scrubs ahead of him.
Sprong, Sheary and a pick going to Buffalo for Reinhart – just a hunch
You need Ztool approval his 2 favourite players that he drools about day and night
We should trade them both for Paul Byron… amirite?
Not one person called him a saviour, literally no one. He’s a kid with terrific offensive instincts and a very good NHL shot! He has top 6 scorer written all over him and in a year where the team can’t score 5v5 there was hope he could translate his game to the NHL this season!
Same top 6 potential that tk once had in your books and gaydoggs
No one said TK was top 6 potential other than you retard. We all knew he was a strong bottom six guy and he proved that for about 3-4 seasons.
By killing momentum shooting the puck from every dead angle to the goalies logo
Guy was scoring 15-20 goals as a third line winger… thats the ballpark range for that roster spot. You’re problem… well one of your problems is you expect every player on a roster to perform like they are top 3 material… except Kessel… he performs like it and you shit on him any way. Your hockey team don’t exist outside of the Olympics because it cannot! So get all bitchy all you want about the fact that you’re upset that we are not getting 30-40 goals from depth guys or that the cap prevents us from flanking Crosby with 2… Read more »