Hey guys, welcome to double shot of penguins here on DK.

Pittsburgh Sports.

My name is Chris Halleck.

Joining me is our Penguins beat reporter on DK.

Pittsburgh sports, Taylor Haas, Taylor.

Oh, gosh, what's going on with this hockey team?

Not just the game last night, but news because there's more news, more bad news somehow.

Yeah, so they practiced today before flying to Ottawa.

Malkin, he didn't play last night.

He's not going to make the trip to Ottawa

with that upper body injury. That's not good. Then Anthony Manta was not out there for practice.

And initially, just knowing Manta, knowing his wife is due with their third child in a little bit,

I was like, well, maybe this is good news. And it was not. Manta is day-to-day with a lower body injury.

So Malkin's not going to travel to Ottawa.

Manta is.

And they didn't recall anyone.

They just had Kevin Hayes, who was also injured, filling in for him on the second

line.

So to me, that's an indication that Manta's probably going to play.

Okay.

But I mean, that's still not what you want to hear at this point.

It's not what you want to hear because right now I think it's,

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