Here is a sentence I did not expect to be writing back in late January or early February: I miss Mike Matheson, and so do the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The defenseman was injured over the weekend when he was hit in the face with a puck and is expected to be sidelined on a “week-to-week” basis. That is a pretty open ended timeline and could be as short as one week and be back for the start of the playoffs, or multiple weeks and miss time well into the postseason.
Either way, the Penguins are missing a player that was at one time this season their most heavily scrutinized and criticized player.