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Penguins Injury Updates: Guentzel Out Week-to-Week, Rust Not Yet Skating
Well, that’s just the Pittsburgh Penguins luck. Scorching hot winger Jake Guentzel, who is on a 13-game scoring streak and filling the net, will be out for some time.
Guentzel blocked a shot with his hand later in the first period on Monday night against the Seattle Kraken. He left the game briefly but returned to score two goals in the Penguins 6-1 win over the Kraken.
However, Guentzel was absent from practice on Wednesday. Head coach Mike Sullivan said Guentzel would be out week-to-week with an upper-body injury. Sullivan did not specify when the injury was suffered or exactly which “upper-body” part, but the hand or something close would be a good guess.
After a rough October in which Guentzel admitted he needed to do better, he has tortured opposing goalies. Guentzel has a team-leading 15 goals and 27 points in 24 games.
Winger Jason Zucker was also absent from the Pittsburgh Penguins practice. Sullivan termed his absence as a maintenance day. During practice, Drew O’Connor subbed for Zucker on the Penguins second line.
Injured winger Bryan Rust has not yet resumed skating. He remains out week-to-week with a lower-body injury, which is his second such length absence due to an injury this season.
Evgeni Malkin has been skating with the team but in a non-contact jersey. He assisted in a few drills on Wednesday but did not take part in line rushes, but did briefly take part in a couple of special teams drills.
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Jake’s one of the more resilient players in hockey. If he’s out then there’s probably something broken in that hand area. I could see him playing with it if it were a finger, so I’m guessing a fractured bone in the hand that could get worse if taking contact… Usually a 3 week type injury.
Kaps has to get out of his head. Zucker needs to start seeing results from his work. Hopefully Carter’s puck luck translates into a stretch of good games. O’Connor will get more ice time which is awesome. Heinen is always Heinen which is good.
Yeah real unlucky organization. Lemieux, Crosby, Jagr, Malkin…5 cups…woe is the Penguins.
Major loss with Jake out they will loose to Capitals no body will pick up the slack
I think they’ll be ok against Washington. I feel like the other guys will really and step up. Over a couple of weeks I think it will be hard to continue that though. Hopefully Rust hits the ice soon.
Ugh poor Jake … how much bad luck can the pens have 🙁
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If the Rust injury is a reoccurrence of the one he had earlier this season, that is on the training staff.
Seems like this is 3 or 4 years in a row that the Pens lead the league in injuries. At some point, is there a cause other than, “bad luck?”
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