Penguins Lose Evgeni Malkin and Kaedan Korczak to Lower-Body Injuries
The are currently 5-7-2 and just found a way to make their week even worse. and are officially day-to-day with lower-body injuries, turning Tuesday's matchup against the into a massive headache.
Losing is the kind of news that makes you want to stare blankly at a wall. He logged nearly 18 minutes in Saturday’s 5-4 loss to the and looked perfectly fine, which means this injury materialized out of thin air just to ruin your fantasy hockey week.
has been the only thing keeping the offense from completely sinking into the Monongahela River. Through 13 games, he has six goals and five assists, tying him with Nick Robertson for the team lead in goals and sitting right behind in total points.
going down is a quieter disaster, but it still hurts a blue line that needs all the help it can get. The 25-year-old defenseman has been eating up over 18 minutes of ice time a night and has six assists through 14 games.
Just to add a little extra misery to the injury report, Elmer Soderblom was downgraded to week-to-week with an upper-body issue. He was supposed to be eligible to return this weekend, but instead, the Penguins are just stacking up hospital bills.
If you were looking at the as a sneaky home underdog against , you might want to recalculate that math. Taking 11 points and 35 minutes of combined daily ice time out of a lineup that is already two games under .500 is a recipe for a very long Tuesday night.
has to figure out a patch job immediately before the Golden Knights roll into town. If and cannot get right by Thursday's game against the , this early-season slide is going to turn into a full-blown freefall.