Penguins/NHL
The Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday recalled minor league forward Garrett Wilson who has 0 points in 34 career NHL games.
By-passed from another call-up situation, all Daniel Sprong did Friday night was go out and record a hat trick and add an assist for a four point night.
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Sprong scored goals 16, 17, and 18 on the season in the Baby Penguins 5-1 win over the Wolf Pack. It was Sprong’s second hat trick of the season and second four point night.
Sprong with 18 goals and 10 assists in 29 games, is second in the AHL in goals.
As the Penguins currently sit out of the playoffs, a sense of urgency to bring Sprong up has finally hit home with Penguin management.
Sprong was officially recalled this morning and the 20 year old winger will join the team for Sunday’s game vs Detroit.
Dominik Simon was re-assigned to Wilkes Barre/Scranton.
On Friday Mike Sullivan again toed the company line in that Sprong wasn’t ready.
A poor outing from the Penguins Friday night and Sprong lighting things up with a four-point night can quickly change things and bring a sense of urgency for a club currently on the outside of the playoffs.
“Daniel’s a guy that obviously has the ability to score goals,” said Sullivan prior to the Hurricanes game. “There are other aspects of his game that he’s continuing to try to work on in order for him to become a more complete player, so that when he does become a Pittsburgh Penguin, he has the ability to make a positive impact.”
Added Sullivan:
“The question I always ask is ‘which guys are going to help our team win right now?. Based on that conversation To read this insider news, subscribe to get “Inside Access”!
I think we should play Sprong on the 4th line so he plays with absolute crap players. Then after 2-4 games, we can say, see, Guerin is right, he’s not ready for the NHL! Screw giving him a chance on the top line where he belongs, it’s all about turning a natural goal scorer into a 200 foot player!
He’s got to look better then Crosby did last night. At one point he flat out whiffed on a shot 12 feet from the net.
While I doubt it’s a personnel issue some young blood has to help some
This callup is not going to cure Sam’s suckness.
DK and Dale Lolly are butt buddies
Bout fucken time!
Sully will soon be dB 2.0
Right… he turned the team into the first back to back cup champs in 20 years after one of the worst fucken coaches in team history coached them into the ground
His need for DB is getting beyond creepy.
And he has “3 thumbs up” meaning he clearly has more than one account and someone has jumped up his ass lol
He doesn’t have the right mix, GM has not helped him at all this season-if anything has hindered the teams success thus far
it’s not an odd call up regarding garret wilson. he is gonna be playing the bottom 6 so he wouldn’t be taking any time away from sprong who will playing on one of the top two lines. fresh legs helps as well just like when Rust and all them came up a few years ago. and wilson has been playing very well down there actually playing on a line with sprong.