{"id":551554,"date":"2026-03-29T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551554\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:40:07","slug":"crosby-day-to-day-for-penguins-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551554\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby day to day for Penguins with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evgeni Malkin<\/a> missed his third straight game on Saturday with an upper-body injury and is also day to day. The 39-year-old forward has 52 points (15 goals, 37 assists) in 50 games in his 20th season.<\/p>\n

“It’s what happens anytime somebody comes out,\u201d Penguins coach Dan Muse said. \u201cGuys have to step up, they have to elevate. Guys have to take on different responsibilities, different minutes, you know, from maybe what they’ve had in the past. It’s the same thing, it’s the same thing we’ve been doing. Obviously, with Sid and with Geno, not one person is going to go in there and suddenly replace them. All these things have to be done by committee, and that’s what we’ve been doing when guys have been out all year.”<\/p>\n

Without Crosby, the Penguins are 5-4-3 this season. They are 2-2-2 without both him and Malkin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when Sid leaves the game, obviously, we have two options,\u201d defenseman Erik Karlsson<\/a>\u00a0said on Thursday. \u201cWe can hang our heads and admit defeat or everybody can just say to themselves that, \u2018I\u2019m going to do my absolute best every time I get out there.\u2019 … Hope the big guys can come back here shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crosby is eighth all-time in points (1,751) and assists (1,098), and 15th in goals (653). His 201 points (71 goals, 130 assists) in the playoffs are the sixth-most in NHL history.<\/p>\n

Named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players at the League’s Centennial celebration in 2017, Crosby has won the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP twice (2006-07, 2013-14), the Ted Lindsay Award as MVP as voted by the NHL Players’ Association three times (2006-07, 2012-13, 2013-14), the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s scoring leader twice (2006-07, 2013-14) and the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy for leading the League in goals twice (2009-10, 2016-17).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m confident,\u201d Crosby said on Feb. 25. \u201cI think we\u2019ve shown all year, we\u2019ve had injuries and guys have stepped up to get to where we are at this point. I think it\u2019s because of our team play. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s been any one person. It\u2019s because collectively, as a group, we\u2019ve found different ways to win and different guys have stepped up.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as we continue that and understand that, then I think we give ourselves a good chance. … A lot of teams are trying to get points and are in similar positions. Just really confident, as far as that\u2019s concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evgeni Malkin missed his third straight game on Saturday with an upper-body injury and is also day to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-551554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551554","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=551554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}