Pens Points: Carolina Crushes and Cruises
Things got ugly down in Raleigh on Thursday night.
Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning...
The Pittsburgh Penguins traveled down to Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday night for a Metropolitan Division duel against the Carolina Hurricanes. As one might expect of the 2024 Penguins and Hurricanes, this game was not close, with Carolina cruising to an easy 5-1 victory over the stuttering flightless birds. [Recap]
Many issues plague the Penguins this season, but the team has big problems defending leads and defending in general. [PensBurgh]
News and notes from around the NHL...
The Philadelphia Flyers healthy-scratched their star rookie Matvei Michkov for the first time on Thursday. [ESPN]
We have a quasi-EBUG alert! The Flyers signed Kyle Konin to an amateur tryout to serve as the team’s emergency backup goaltender Thursday after goalie Aleksei Kolosov was injured during the morning skate. [NHL]
After initially rejecting a reported $88 million deal, one NHL insider claims a massive extension is still on the horizon for New York Rangers puck-stopper Igor Shesterkin. [Yahoo Sports/The Hockey News]
It was announced on Thursday that players in the Canadian Hockey League will be eligible to play men’s Division I NCAA ice hockey starting next season. [NHL]
How might this NCAA-CHL rule impact elite hockey moving forward? [Sportsnet]