{"id":43824,"date":"2019-03-17T23:31:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=43824"},"modified":"2019-03-17T23:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:31:22","slug":"evgeni-malkin-out-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/03\/17\/evgeni-malkin-out-upper-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Evgeni Malkin Week-To-Week With Upper Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins were dealt another injury blow to their lineup as head coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sullimi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Sullivan<\/a> has announced that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/malkiev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a> <\/strong>will be week-to-week with an upper-body injury. Malkin suffered the injury on a crosscheck from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/borturo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Robert Bortuzzo<\/strong><\/a> during Saturday afternoon&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Penguins labeled Evgeni Malkin&#39;s &quot;upper-body&quot; injury as week to week. He took a pretty vicious cross check in the right ribs portion of his upper-body from former teammate Robert Bortuzzo on Saturday: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iIuiifLY8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/iIuiifLY8s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seth Rorabaugh (@SethRorabaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethRorabaugh\/status\/1107479624760606720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Malkin ended up finishing the rest of the game but did not appear in Sunday night&#8217;s 2-1 overtime loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Evgeni Malkin Out With Upper Body Injury<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This injury is obviously a huge blow to the Penguins. They&#8217;re fighting for not just positioning in the playoffs, but they&#8217;re also trying to take a run at the Metropolitan Division title. They&#8217;re three points out after this loss and there&#8217;s still no word on a return date for all-star defenseman<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/letankr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kris Letang<\/a><\/strong> either, though it may be on this upcoming road trip. Not having either one of them potentially in key games down the stretch will make running for a division title or home ice even harder than it already was.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin has still enjoyed a great season as he has 21 goals and 71 points in 66 games. He&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/03\/12\/evgeni-malkin-fifth-russian-born-player-1000-points\/\" target=\"_self\">coming off<\/a> hitting 1,000 career points against the Washington Capitals this past Tuesday. With this injury, it means that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bjugsni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Bjugstad<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bluegte01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teddy Blueger<\/a><\/strong> will have to slide up the lineup. Blueger was the number two center against the Flyers and didn&#8217;t look out of sorts at all as he scored a goal.<\/p>\n<p>This loss will also affect the power play as Malkin is one of the best players on the man advantage. He has nine power-play goals, 26 power-play points on the season. The man advantage looked lethargic (and that&#8217;s saying it nicely) without Malkin on Sunday night as the Penguins couldn&#8217;t get anything going. This is a big loss for the Penguins as they continue the stretch run.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"ERWgbn_mSLdRscQZmlgD6w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1132603095\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ERWgbn_mSLdRscQZmlgD6w',sig:'Nztn2h83gSBqUbvfc1tdiOsdM29-hVv1ZZnYTtUpZio=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1132603095',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins were dealt another injury blow to their lineup as head coach Mike Sullivan has announced that Evgeni Malkin will be week-to-week with an upper-body injury. Malkin suffered the injury on a crosscheck from Robert Bortuzzo during Saturday afternoon&#8217;s game against the St. Louis Blues. The Penguins labeled Evgeni Malkin&#39;s &quot;upper-body&quot; injury as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":43831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34],"tags":[544,37,38,44,980],"class_list":["post-43824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-news","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-robert-bortuzzo"],"modified_by":"Ariel Melendez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}