The Pittsburgh Penguins' injury curse had to live on. Yeah, you guys knew it wasn't going away anytime soon. Hunter starts this show by going into the unfortunate news about Jeff Petry as he is set to miss close to a month with that hand injury. He looks at how the Penguins will reconfigure their defensive pairs during that time and how much more weight is about to be on the shoulders of Kris Letang. He then analyzes the Penguins' callups and why the two that came up made the most sense. He goes into Drew O'Connor's recent hot stretch down in WBS and why Mark Friedman will be more of a warm body because the Penguins still have 6 healthy defensemen right now. Yes, he does get to the Ty Smith stuff and why it wouldn't make much sense to bring him up...at least for right now. after that, he looks at POJ's game as a whole and how he continues to show that he's going to be a long-term top 4 defenseman in this league. Hunter dives into the numbers (which are career-highs) that show just how good he's been at both ends of the rink. He then begs the question of whether POJ should get more minutes while Petry is out. Should he come up to the top pairing? Should he be the full-time QB of the second PP? Finally, Hunter looks ahead to the Panthers and what's making them struggle this season before teasing a full preview episode on Wednesday with Armando Velez.
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