{"id":218321,"date":"2025-10-12T04:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218321\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:27:09","slug":"east-notes-letang-soucy-lorentz-livingstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218321\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Letang, Soucy, Lorentz, Livingstone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only having one shift in the third period of tonight\u2019s contest against the New York Rangers, many began to wonder if Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang<\/a> was dealing with an injury. That is indeed the case. According to Seth Rorabaugh of The Tribune-Review<\/a>, Letang is being evaluated for an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n

Despite missing a few games last year due to injuries, Letang hasn\u2019t dealt with any serious issues since suffering a stroke early in the 2022-23 campaign. Since returning, he\u2019s appeared in 95.2% of all potential contests for the Penguins.<\/p>\n

In the offseason, the Penguins indicated that they\u2019d like to limit Letang\u2019s usage this season. However, before tonight\u2019s game against the Rangers, in which he played 15:29, Letang has averaged nearly 25 minutes a game, leading the team by a significant margin.<\/p>\n

Other notes from the Eastern Conference:<\/p>\n

On the other side of tonight\u2019s contest between the Penguins and Rangers, the winning team is dealing with a defenseman injury of its own. After only appearing in 6:35 of tonight\u2019s game, the Rangers announced<\/a> that blueliner Carson Soucy<\/a> left the game due to an upper-body injury. There could be cause for concern given the nature of the injury. Attempting to hit Penguins forward Rickard Rakell<\/a>, Soucy missed the body check completely, flying awkwardly into the boards.
\nIn a separate Eastern Conference matchup, this time in the Atlantic Division, the Toronto Maple Leafs lost<\/a> forward Steven Lorentz<\/a> to an upper-body injury. Lorentz\u2019s departure from tonight\u2019s game came early in the first period after being hit by Detroit Red Wings defenseman Ben Chiarot<\/a>. He skated in 1:17 of tonight\u2019s game, and the Maple Leafs added no further comments on the severity of his injury.
\nAccording to a team announcement<\/a>, the AHL\u2019s Charlotte Checkers, the main affiliate of the Florida Panthers, have signed defenseman Jake Livingstone<\/a> to a contract for the 2025-26 season. The Minnesota State University alumnus has spent the last two years with the Milwaukee Admirals after debuting with the Nashville Predators in the 2022-23 season. In that two-year stint with the Admirals, Livingstone scored nine goals and 33 points in 127 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only having one shift in the third period of tonight\u2019s contest against the New York Rangers, many began…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[391,123326,4820,10156,123327,123328,4823,385,1790,99,123329,1788,6182],"class_list":["post-218321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-carson-soucy","tag-florida-panthers","tag-injury","tag-jake-livingstone","tag-kris-letang","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sports","tag-steven-lorentz","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}