Another team, in another time, might have panicked.
And with good reason.
But not this club.
Not this season, anyway.
When a group has endured all that the Penguins have gone through since last autumn, finding out that it will be without its leading scorer mere minutes before a game is to begin doesn't provoke anything more dramatic among teammates than a shrug of the shoulders, and perhaps an eye roll or two.
And so it was Tuesday evening at PPG Paints Arena, when Evgeni Malkin removed himself from the ice partway through warmups before the Penguins' 5-2 victory against Toronto, prompting Mike Sullivan to scratch him from the lineup a few minutes later.