Penguins Looking For A Left-Handed Defenseman?
I usually don’t read a whole lot of other Penguins’ blogs. However, this morning curiosity got the better of me; I wanted to see if Kyle Dubas was going to put Rickard Rackell on Injured Reserve (IR). Maybe I shouldn’t have looked. What I came across was a post telling us readers that our Penguins were trolling the trade market for a Left-handed Defenseman (LHD). I had to laugh.
It seems that the author of said article as well as (if the article is to be believed) Dubas and our favorite flightless fowls brain trust are concerned over the state of the team’s LHD. Caleb Jones’s injury is severe enough to have him placed on IR causing the consternation among the would-be experts that set up this uncomfortableness. Apparently, the powers that be (according to the article) are reluctant to bring up Ryan Graves and Alexander Alexeyev, whom they waived and demoted to the Baby Penguins in Wilkes Barre – Scranton. Furthermore, Penguins’ management also is displaying a reluctance to promote former first round draft pick Owen Pickering.