Pittsburgh Penguins forward Anthony Mantha was withheld from a practice session in Cranberry on Wednesday due to an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n
He has been labeled as \u201cday to day\u201d and will travel with the team for a road game against the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The specific nature of his ailment isn\u2019t publicly known. Mantha finished Tuesday\u2019s 6-2 home loss to the Colorado Avalanche with no visible impairment.<\/p>\n
One of five players who have appeared in all 71 of the Penguins\u2019 games this season, Mantha has set career highs for goals (26), assists (27) and points (53) while averaging 15:03 of ice per contest.<\/p>\n
During Tuesday\u2019s game, he replaced another injured player, Evgeni Malkin, on the right wing of the second line as well as the top power-play unit.<\/p>\n
Malkin remains \u201cday to day\u201d due to an unspecified malady and will not travel to Ottawa, according to Muse.<\/p>\n
Malkin has skated in 50 games this season and posted 52 points (15 goals, 37 assists) while clocking an average of 17:33 per contest.<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Penguins\u2019 lines and pairings during Wednesday\u2019s practice were:<\/p>\n
67 Rickard Rakell \u2013 87 Sidney Crosby \u2013 17 Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
59 Egor Chinakhov \u2013 18 Tommy Novak \u2013 13 Kevin Hayes<\/p>\n
41 Ville Koivunen \u2013 81 Ben Kindel \u2013 16 Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n
25 Elmer Soderblom \u2013 19 Connor Dewar \u2013 55 Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
28 Parker Wotherspoon \u2013 65 Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
49 Sam Girard \u2013 59 Kris Letang<\/p>\n
27 Ryan Graves \u2013 7 Ilya Solovyov<\/p>\n
\u2022 Defenseman Jack St. Ivany operated as a reserve.<\/p>\n
\u2022 There were no special teams drills.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Muse was asked for an update on rookie forward Filip Hallander, who has been designated to injured reserve due to a blood clot in an unspecified leg since November, but indicated a more elaborate update will be provided on Hallander in due time.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 18, Hallander was sent to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League on a conditioning assignment. In three games with that team, he scored one goal before being recalled to the NHL roster Feb. 27. Since then, the Penguins have offered minimal updates on his status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins forward Anthony Mantha was withheld from a practice session in Cranberry on Wednesday due to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-546752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546752","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=546752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}