Penguins Injury woes continue, 3 players now suffering Concussion like symptoms.

During Penguins practice today a couple new faces were welcomed back onto the ice in Kunitz and Letestu, however neither will be joining the team this Sunday against the defending champion Blackhawks.  Dustin Jeffrey is also not expected to play this weekend and is still recovering. It is now being reported that Arron Asham's injury to his upper body, is actually concussion like symptoms.

"Arron Asham, we listed him as upper-body, he has been experiencing concussion-like symptoms. Day-to-day is not accurate at this point in time. He has been progressing." stated head coach Bylsma, "He hasn't gone to exercise. That's where Arron's at."

This leaves Sidney Crosby, WBS Penguins AHL top prospect Eric Tangradi, and now Arron Asham with concussion like symptoms, which essentially means that they all have concussions. What this means to each of them individually in the future of their careers will differ between the three, but neither of them will be the same they were before.

In addition to that, Nick Johnson a recent WBS call up is also suffering an injury that he received to his upper body during practice today. This is the fourth player to be injured during or after practice this year and the trend is not a good one for this battered squad. Penguins management will have to call up yet another Wilkes-Barre boy from the AHL and after sending Wallace back down expect to see a new face in the headline, there are only 2 players left on two-way contracts so the options are becoming limited.

Malkin is on his first week of rehab and was walking around the practice rink this morning. There is still no change in Sidney Crosby's status but most don't expect to hear word until early March. Thankfully the Penguins are one step closer to receiving Chris Kunitz and Mark Letestu back into their line-ups and considering Chris Kunitz would bring back one of the top 5 scorers on the team it is a welcome return. Getting Letestu back means that the team will get a player who is hot in the faceoff circle winning 52% of his draws taken this year, one can only hope that would continue after a few calibration games.

Picking up the win in Colorado was big, but the Pen's now go on to face five teams in 7 days,  including three games on the road. They'll face Chicago first on Sunday however on NBC as part of USA Hockey's "Hockey Day in America" campaign trying to raise awareness of the game across the country. So if you haven't put one on already today, remember to dawn your Hockey jersey and team colors today.