It's tough to talk about the Pittsburgh Penguins right now without discussing their injury woes. Losing bodies on a nightly basis hasn't prevented the team from winning, though, which will make the lengthy IR list right now a positive thing in the long run.
The obvious conclusion here is that the Penguins are able to see what some of their young players can do in the NHL instead of watching them in the AHL and taking an educated guess. When you do a little digging, though, the timing for this run of injuries couldn't be much better.
The reasoning is simple: After this season, Pittsburgh will have at least 16 free agents to deal with, according to CapGeek.com.
Many of those expiring contracts are of the restricted variety, and the Penguins are getting nice, long looks at the likes of Jayson Megna and Simon Despres. If the team had stayed healthy throughout this season, it's likely that several of the players that are currently on the roster wouldn't have seen much (if any) time in the NHL.
This arms Pittsburgh with some powerful information about the makeup of the organization moving forward, though ...
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