{"id":444038,"date":"2026-01-30T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444038\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:57:08","slug":"penguins-malkin-letang-held-out-of-practice-status-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444038\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins’ Malkin, Letang held out of practice, status unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"

The red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> were missing a few key members when they hit the ice for practice on Friday<\/p>\n

Malkin has been dealing with a shoulder injury since early December, causing him to miss one month before returning on Jan. 10.<\/p>\n

Despite only playing in 37 games this season, the centre ranks second on the team with 13 goals and 41 points, only trailing captain Sidney Crosby<\/a> (57).<\/p>\n

Letang has been healthy for the majority of the season, but recently missed two games against the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers with an upper-body injury. He returned on Sunday against the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n

The defenceman has three goals and 25 points in 50 games this season.<\/p>\n

The team said that their statuses will be updated on Saturday, with head coach Dan Muse confirming that there are no updates on the situation.<\/p>\n

“A couple things just being looked at. And so, I don’t have any updates right now. I’m still waiting to get some updates. We’re going to provide those once we have them. But I don’t have anything to report (right now),” Muse said, per<\/a> Penguins team reporter Michelle Crechiolo.<\/p>\n

The Penguins, who sit second in the Metropolitan Division and are riding a five-game win streak, host the New York Rangers on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins were missing a few key members when they hit the ice for practice on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-444038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444038","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=444038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}