Penguins Practice: McGroarty Among Those Missing; Tomasino Skates
Rookie forward Rutger McGroarty was not on the ice Thursday at Pittsburgh Penguins practice at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex.
McGroarty, who has been impressive in five games in his most recent call-up, left Tuesday’s game against Chicago after blocking a shot with his left foot. There was no post-game update. We hope to get more information after practice.
Also missing were forwards Noel Acciari, Matt Nieto and Blake Lizotte.
Before practice, injured forward Philip Tomasino (concussion) and defenseman P.O Joseph (unspecified) skated. Joseph has been skating
With injuries piling up, the Penguins brought in reinforcements from the AHL. Emil Bemstrom, Vasily Ponomarev and Valtteri Puustinen arrived and participated in practice.
The Penguins were scheduled to fly to New Jersey after practice for a game Friday. The Devils have clinched a playoff spot and a first-round matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Penguins Lines
Ville Koivunen-Sidney Crosby-Bryan Rust
Danton Heinen-Evgeni Malkin-Rickard Rakell
Connor Dewar-Kevin Hayes-Valtteri Puustinen
Joona Koppanen-Vasily Ponomarev-Emil Bemstrom
Defense
Matt Grzelcyk-Kris Letang
Conor Timmins-Erik Karlsson
Ryan Graves-Ryan Shea
PP1 — Crosby, Gryzleck, Rakell, Rust, Koivunen
PP2 — Karlsson, Letang, Malkin, Hayes, Puustinen
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With 3 games and a week left, no one will need to clear waivers to go back to wbs that they called up recently. It’s 10 games or 30 days right?
50 cents says that McGroarty has a LBI. *eye roll*
He’s done for the season. Possibly back for a deep playoff run.
Like the call ups, wish someone else would be on the 2nd line instead of Heinen – one of the 2 VPs. DH playing there really does nothing. Ponomarev getting 4th line minutes is an indictment of where they feel his progress is.
Typical Sully move!!!
I would have liked to see Poulin get an opportunity on 2nd line.