[link_box id=”22277″ site_id=”17″ layout=”link-box-third” alignment=”alignright”]The Stanley Cup champions might be without their best player for a few games. Sidney Crosby suffered a concussion in practice on Friday and his return date is up in the air.
Coach Sullivan on Crosby's concussion: "It happened in practice on Friday." There is no timeline for his return yet.
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) October 10, 2016
Coach Sullivan on Crosby's concussion: "He came to the rink on Saturday not feeling well and we went from there."
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) October 10, 2016
PIT coach Mike Sullivan said they would prefer to keep in house what specifically in Fri's practice may have led to Crosby's concussion.
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 10, 2016
Well how’s that for intrigue? That could mean anything. Though it probably means that the Penguins feel they’ve told us too much already by not announcing this as an “upper body injury”.
But with Crosby’s concussion history, the fear was that it wasn’t much that caused Sidney to have concussion symptoms, even though Crosby’s missed most of his time four to five seasons ago. The Penguins are still loaded and talented and fast. Probably talented and fast enough to get through a few games without their captain and the Conn Smythe Trophy winner. But anything more than that will obviously be big trouble.
