The Pittsburgh Penguins added a forward on Wednesday, claiming centre/right wing Mark Arcobello off waivers from the Nashville Predators:
The obvious question is this: Why is one of the NHL’s best teams interested in a player on whom two other clubs have already given up?
One obvious reason is that a Pittsburgh team which was never all that deep up front has been absolutely ravaged by injuries. The Pens have started getting healthy of late, but a glance at their official roster still shows four different forwards on injured reserve: Pascal Dupuis, Patric Hornqvist, Blake Comeau and AHL call-up Scott Wilson.
Those injuries mean that forwards like Bryan Rust (14 points in 25 AHL games prior to recall) and Zach Sill (one assist in 48 career NHL games) played against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday. With all due respect to those players, the bar to crack the Pittsburgh roster isn’t terribly high at the moment.
That’s where Arcobello comes in. So far I’ve presented this as a case of "things are so bad in Pittsburgh that it can’t hurt," and while there is certainly an element ...
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