{"id":855637,"date":"2026-09-21T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855637\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:46:29","slug":"penguins-injuries-bad-news-on-lizotte-okuliar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855637\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Injuries: Bad News on Lizotte, Okuliar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CRANBERRY TWP., Pa. \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins might need to tap into their forward depth sooner than expected.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday morning, the team announced that tenacious fourth-line center Blake Lizotte suffered an upper-body injury and is out week-to-week. Last season, Lizotte claimed the Penguins\u2019 fourth-line role with Connor Dewar and Noel Acciari as his wingers, and earned a new three-year contract with a $2.25 million salary cap hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lizotte, 28, had seven goals, 19 points last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, Oliver Okuliar is out week-to-week after suffering a lower-body injury Saturday in practice. He left practice early on Saturday, favoring his right foot or ankle. The Penguins acquired Okuliar, who played for Team Slovakia at the Olympics, from Florida for Emil Pieniniemi during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/blake-lizotte\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">blake lizotte<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/oliver-okuliar\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Okuliar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CRANBERRY TWP., Pa. \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins might need to tap into their forward depth sooner than expected.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[211755,385,304985,1790,99],"class_list":["post-855637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-blake-lizotte","tag-nhl","tag-oliver-okuliar","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855637","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=855637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}