Lately, the Penguins defense has been struggling. In the last three games, the Matt Hunwick-Jamie Oleksiak pairing has been on the ice for a handful of bad goals against. It seemed like Mike Sullivan officially had enough, and since he can’t do much about the goalie situation until Matt Murray returns from injury, he decided to finally replace Hunwick with one of the players in his bag of depth defensemen.
Chad Ruhwedel got his named called, and man, did he earn his return back to the lineup in that Islanders game Saturday afternoon.