Penguins Update: The Injury Bug Bites (Hard)

I didn’t have any fresh ideas for articles yesterday and was kind of on cruise control as far as our Penguins were concerned. After all, we were fresh off a big win over Vegas. What could possibly happen on a day off, right?

Then I happened to check NHL.com last night and was stunned by the headline, “Rust, Rakell and Ruhwedel sidelined for Penguins.”

Yikes.

It appears the ol’ injury bug decided to make a ‘PIT’ stop (poor pun intended).

To digress, our Pens have been fortunate if not downright blessed to be relatively injury free thus far. By comparison, the Lightning have been without all-world goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy since September. Tonight’s foe, the Rangers, have been missing all-star defenseman and puck-mover extraordinaire Adam Fox.

Given our collective age and the physically demanding nature of the sport, it was only a matter of time before our luck ran out or the law of averages caught up to us…take your pick.

Still, it doesn’t make the pill any less bitter or more palatable.

Highlighting a bevy of injury-induced roster moves, the Pens placed snakebitten winger Rickard Rakell on long-term injured reserve with an upper-body injury.

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