Penguins This ‘n’ ‘At

As our Penguins prepare to take on Rick Tocchet’s Canucks on Turkey Day Eve, I decided to fire a shot or two across the opinion bow.

I’m not super disappointed that the Pens placed forward Valtteri Puustinen on waivers to make room for Blake Lizotte. Puusti was pretty much going to waste as the team’s 13th forward and was never going to be granted a real opportunity given our logjam of forwards. And I do like Lizotte, who plays with some badly needed fire and zip when healthy.

The move I don’t get (and absolutely hate)? Apparently, Jesse Puljujärvi was the odd man out of the line rushes at yesterday’s practice. In the process, casting the last vestige of our best line of late, the Drew O’Connor–Sam Poulin-Puljujärvi trio, to the wind.

To put it bluntly, WTF?

Anyway you slice it…eye test, metrics, boxcars…Jesse’s been one of our most effective players this season. He even scored goals in consecutive games last week, a rare feat indeed for our stone-handed forwards.

Know who was slotted in?

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