{"id":214171,"date":"2025-10-15T06:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214171\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:17:08","slug":"evening-notes-brunicke-crozier-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214171\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Brunicke, Crozier, Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Penguins announced tonight<\/a> that young defenseman Harrison Brunicke <\/a>will not play tonight versus Anaheim. Brunicke has looked the part in his first three NHL games, notching a goal, but at just 19-years-old, the Penguins are taking it easy with their key prospect. Although fans may be disappointed, the silver lining is that Kris Letang<\/a> could return. New Head Coach Dan Muse<\/a> emphasized the need to put Brunicke along with fellow youngster Ben Kindel<\/a> in positions to succeed, and given his strong pedigree coaching across junior, collegiate, and professional hockey, it seems the Penguins have the right eyes on their young prospects, as they face a fascinating crossroads which will play out this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elsewhere across the league:<\/p>\n

The Lightning have announced mid-game<\/a> that defenseman Max Crozier<\/a> will not return due to injury. The 25-year-old more unassuming player, who has spent most of his professional career in the AHL after being drafted 120th overall in 2019, has been off to a great start for Tampa Bay this season with three assists in as many games. Further details on the severity of the injury are unknown at this time.\u00a0
\nOn today\u2019s episode<\/a> of Bleacher Report\u2019s Insider Notebook, Insider Frank Seravalli said that the Carolina Hurricanes are watching the waiver wire closely for goalies, and that it would be no surprise if the team made some sort of move for one. Thankfully for the team, Frederik Andersen<\/a> has won both games so far, but given his injury history, along with Pyotr Kochetkov<\/a>\u2019s inconsistency and current injury<\/a>, the Canes could be looking for more stability. Carolina claimed Brandon Bussi<\/a> on waivers earlier this month<\/a>, but as a 27-year-old yet to debut in the NHL, and with AHL numbers which don\u2019t necessarily jump off the page, GM Eric Tulsky could have another trick up his sleeve soon; especially if the team wants to reach new heights come spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins announced tonight that young defenseman Harrison Brunicke will not play tonight versus Anaheim. Brunicke has looked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,748,92040,5718,103820,448,753,82,745],"class_list":{"0":"post-214171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","11":"tag-harrison-brunicke","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-max-crozier","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}