Because they were off Wednesday, the Penguins will likely have a full morning skate Thursday at PPG Paints Arena ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Kings.
It will be one of only a handful of those they’ve had this season.
Perhaps a byproduct of playing 213 games between 2015-17 — the most ever in a two-year window in NHL history — the Penguins have had fewer and fewer players choose to take the ice the morning of a game.
While none of them is ready to attribute the extra rest to the Penguins’ 13-4-1 record since Jan.