Penguins now 4-4 since the spree of injuries they have suffered.

You knew when the season started the Penguins weren't going to win all 82 games, and at this point their record is still pretty good but I am starting to have some concerns. This team will again be great when they get healthy but the injuries they are suffering are long term injuries, guys are missing 6 weeks at a clip. And every guy we have lost is one of our better players. This is the time when great players rise up and carry there team to victory, and right now we are not seeing this from Sidney Crosby who is the Penguins only legitimate scoring threat left in the line up. In his defense his wingers have been horrible guerin has not been finishing plays that should be goals, and as for Kunitz well you all know how i feel about him. The scary thing about this situation is there is nothing the Penguins can do right now to fix this situation, they just need to hold on and try to play 500 hockey until they start to get healthy again.

Thought of the day:
Before Malkin got hurt everyone was down on Malkin and Crosby's point production so far for the year compared to last year where Malkin won the scoring title and Crosby finished third. In my opinion there numbers were so good last year and very average this year because Crosby and Malkin were playing together most of the year last year under Therrien. So when the Penguins get healthy I think they should be reunited on the top line, Staal has proved so far this year that he is a beast and can handle the second line, Talbot and Adams can center the third and fourth line. I know a lot of people will make the arguement that putting them together makes it to easy for other teams to defend them, because they can load there best defensive players up against that line and not worry about a second line beating them. To this i say, our second line will still be a very good line and if you can find a defensive pairing to shut those two down when they are playing together than you probably deserve to win. Here are my projected lines when we get healthy.

Malkin-Crosby-Guerin
Kunitz-Staal-Kennedy
Cooke-Talbot-Feds
Rupp-Adams-Dupuis