Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Stuart Skinner appears likely to rejoin his team for Thursday\u2019s road contest against the New Jersey Devils after being scratched for a contest due to a facial injury.<\/p>\n
During a practice session in Cranberry on Wednesday, Skinner worked out with teammates in a full capacity with few apparent limitations.<\/p>\n
In fact, Skinner and rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs participated in the bulk of the practice session while prospect Sergei Murashov, recalled from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Tuesday, was relegated to working out on an auxiliary rink with an assistant coach.<\/p>\n
Following practice, coach Dan Muse indicated all three goaltenders are scheduled to travel to Newark, N.J. for Thursday\u2019s contest but stopped short of declaring if Skinner would be part of the lineup.<\/p>\n
Skinner was struck by a puck near his left eye during a 9-4 home win against the Florida Panthers. Dressing as the backup for that contest, Skinner was injured while sitting on the bench when a puck left the ice.<\/p>\n
After his eye swelled up overnight and impaired his vision, he was scratched for a 5-2 home win against the Panthers on Sunday, a contest he was initially scheduled to start.<\/p>\n
In 47 games this season, Skinner has a 22-16-9 record, a 2.91 goals-against average, an .888 save percentage and two shutouts.<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Penguins forward Anthony Mantha was a full participant in Wednesday\u2019s practice session after recovering from an illness on Tuesday. Muse indicated Mantha was also scheduled to travel to Newark.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The team\u2019s lines and pairings during Wednesday\u2019s session:<\/p>\n
59 Egor Chinakhov \u2013 87 Sidney Crosby \u2013 17 Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
18 Tommy Novak \u2013 67 Rickard Rakell \u2013 71 Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
39 Anthony Mantha \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 58 Kris Letang<\/p>\n
5 Ryan Shea \u2013 75 Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
27 Ryan Graves \u2013 7 Ilya Solovyov<\/p>\n
\u2022 Forwards Avery Hayes and Kevin Hayes, as well as defenseman Jack St. Ivany, operated as reserves.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The top power-play unit involved Crosby, Karlsson, Malkin, Rakell and Rust. The second power-play unit included Chinakhov, Kindel, Letang, Mantha and Novak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Stuart Skinner appears likely to rejoin his team for Thursday\u2019s road contest against the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-547788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116370360537123446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547788","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=547788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}