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<\/p>\nPenguins star Evgeni Malkin out vs. Avalanche due to injury<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA DOZEN GAMES LEFT IN THE REGULAR SEASON. TIGHT RACE RIGHT NOW. SO LET ME ASK YOU, IS THIS TEAM GOOD ENOUGH TO CLINCH HOME ICE FOR AN OPENING ROUND PLAYOFF? THEY\u2019RE GOOD ENOUGH. I DO THINK THAT IF YOU TRY TO PARSE BETWEEN WHO THEY ARE, WHO THE ISLANDERS ARE, WHO THE BLUE JACKETS ARE, THOSE THREE TEAMS IN THE METRO VYING FOR THE TOP THREE SLOTS, ALONG WITH CAROLINA. ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO BE LEFT OUT AND VYING FOR A WILD CARD SPOT. YOU\u2019RE GOING TO BE DOING EXACTLY THAT. YOU\u2019RE GOING TO BE PARSING. AND YOU KNOW, I HAVE THE GENERAL OPINION. I THINK THAT A LOT OF HOCKEY FANS DO, AT LEAST BASED ON SOME WEB POLLS I\u2019VE PUT OUT THERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOME FEEDBACK I\u2019VE GOTTEN FROM PEOPLE REALLY KNOW THE GAME OF HOCKEY THAT I THINK THE ISLANDERS HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF VARIANCE TO WHO THEY ARE. I THINK THAT THE ISLANDERS ARE PROBABLY MOST REPRESENTATIVE OF WHO THEY ARE RIGHT NOW, BASED ON THE SCHEDULE THEY PLAYED, BASED ON WHAT THEY\u2019VE GOT LEFT. THERE\u2019S STILL SOME WOBBLE THERE WITH THE PENGUINS, ESPECIALLY NOW THE ONE POSITIVE SIDE, YOU GET GINO AND SID BACK, HEALTHY AS THEY HAVE BEEN, BUT THE GOALTENDING I THINK HAS SOME VARIANCE TO IT. AND AT SOME POINT YOU FEEL LIKE THE BLUE JACKETS HAVE TO SLOW DOWN. SO MY HUNCH RIGHT NOW, IF YOU MADE ME CHO\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Penguins star Evgeni Malkin out vs. Avalanche due to injury<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 11:48 AM EDT Mar 24, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tPenguins forward Evgeni Malkin is injured and will not play against the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.The Pens said Malkin is day-to-day with an upper-body injury and has been ruled out for Tuesday’s game at PPG Paints Arena.With Malkin out, the Penguins announced that forward Ville Koivunen has been recalled from Wilkes-Barre Scranton.This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin is injured and will not play against the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n The Pens said Malkin is day-to-day with an upper-body injury and has been ruled out for Tuesday’s game at PPG Paints Arena.<\/p>\n With Malkin out, the Penguins announced that forward Ville Koivunen has been recalled from Wilkes-Barre Scranton.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. <\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penguins star Evgeni Malkin out vs. Avalanche due to injury A DOZEN GAMES LEFT IN THE REGULAR SEASON.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[12630,193,192,144,60437,5277,60438,1495,5,60439,402,4,118,136,1469,100,8874,204,3183,4429,3879],"class_list":["post-520361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-action-news","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-colorado-game-tuesday-night","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-day-to-day","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-hockey","tag-inbox","tag-injury","tag-nhl","tag-penguins","tag-pens","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-ppg-paints-arena","tag-story","tag-update","tag-ville-koivunen","tag-wilkes-barre-scranton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116285002284590203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}