2015
01.14
01.14
class="ui-droppable">The Pittsburgh Penguins added a forward on Wednesday, claiming centre/right wing Mark Arcobello off waivers from the Nashville Predators:
The obvious question is this: Why is one of the NHL’s best teams interested in a player on whom two other clubs have already given up?
One obvious reason is that a Pittsburgh team which was never all that deep up front has been absolutely ravaged by injuries. The Pens have started getting healthy of late, but a glance at their official roster still shows four different forwards on injured reserve: Pascal Dupuis, Patric Hornqvist, Blake Comeau and AHL call-up Scott Wilson.
Those injuries mean that forwards like Bryan Rust (14 points in 25 AHL games prior to recall) ...
Read Full Article at Bleacher Report - Pittsburgh Penguins
The obvious question is this: Why is one of the NHL’s best teams interested in a player on whom two other clubs have already given up?
One obvious reason is that a Pittsburgh team which was never all that deep up front has been absolutely ravaged by injuries. The Pens have started getting healthy of late, but a glance at their official roster still shows four different forwards on injured reserve: Pascal Dupuis, Patric Hornqvist, Blake Comeau and AHL call-up Scott Wilson.
Those injuries mean that forwards like Bryan Rust (14 points in 25 AHL games prior to recall) ...
Read Full Article at Bleacher Report - Pittsburgh Penguins