The Pittsburgh Penguins have had to navigate basically the entire season without one of their best and most important defensemen when Justin Schultz was dropped with a broken leg in the beginning of the fourth game of the season back on October 13th. He’s obviously been out for the 37 games to follow.
But some progress has been made and his course of recovery has been charted a bit by coach Mike Sullivan at a post-practice press conference on Friday. When asked if Schultz had returned to skate on his own at all, Sullivan said:
“It has not happened to this point.