CRANBERRY, Pa. -- The Penguins made it through the last two seasons without a single in-season positive COVID case.
Four games into this season, they haven't been quite so lucky.
Jeff Carter and Tristan Jarry were both absent from the Penguins' practice at the Lemieux Complex on Thursday afternoon. Mike Sullivan announced afterward that Carter tested positive for COVID-19 and is in COVID protocol, and that Jarry was also in COVID protocol.
Sullivan said that both Carter and Jarry are asymptomatic to this point.
They become the third and fourth players to enter COVID protocol for the Penguins this season, after Zach Aston-Reese and Jake Guentzel tested positive during training camp.