The regular season hasn’t even begun yet, and the Penguins have enough meat on the bone in terms of injury news that it’s newsworthy. Yay!
But it’s seemingly good news, as coach Mike Sullivan announced that defenseman Brian Dumoulin and goalie Tristan Jarry (both injured in Friday’s preseason finale) are day-to-day with with upper and lower body injuries, respectively. Forward Daniel Sprong (injured in last Wednesday’s preseason game) is also day-to-day but skated on his own before practice, which Sullivan found “encouraging”.
With those three players all absent from the team on the ice, here is how the rest of the club lined up this morning in Cranberry:
#Pens lines and D-pairs:
Guentzel-Crosby-Hornqvist
Hagelin-Malkin-Kessel
Simon-Brassard-Rust
Cullen-Sheahan-Aston-Reese
Riikola-Letang
Maatta-Johnson
Oleksiak-Schultz
Ruhwedel-Trotman
-MC— Pens Inside Scoop (@PensInsideScoop) September 30, 2018The obvious eyebrow-raiser is rookie Juuso Riikola on the top pair with Kris Letang.