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Forwards Ville Koivunen and Cooper Foster, as well as defensemen Owen Pickering and Emil Pieniniemi have been added to the Penguins' roster for the Calder Cup Playoffs. https://t.co/6ePVqfkVyE pic.twitter.com/UkHAxuntBI
— x-Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (@WBSPenguins) April 22, 2024
I spoke to people around #LetsGoPens first-rounder Owen Pickering about the adversity he has faced, his exciting potential, and his “brilliant mind.”
— Scott Wheeler (@scottcwheeler) March 14, 2024
Then I caught up with him. My story on the kid, the injuries, the World Juniors snub, and his progress:https://t.co/Cx9jkFmPKb pic.twitter.com/rQodj6ZXEL
There was a time when he was getting taller so quickly that he’d show up to training sessions with his strength and conditioning coach Matt Asmundson “literally having growing pains.”
“Not the cliché, the actual thing,” Asmundson told The Athletic.
The first time around, he fractured his wrist on a hit from behind in Moose Jaw during the first game of the WHL preseason with his Swift Current Broncos. This year, he hurt his ankle in the summer, which prevented him from training his lower body and cost him another trip to Buffalo for the Penguins’ rookie tournament as well as another opportunity to make his NHL preseason debut with the big club. It also ate into his season and may have cost him a spot on Team Canada at the 2024 world juniors — a team whose summer camp he was invited to as an 18-year-old two years ago after he’d been named a top three player for the Canadian under-18 team that spring, but whose selection camp he didn’t get the invite for as a 19-year-old.
cannot get over how cunty this is. jake guentzel you will always be famous pic.twitter.com/OURHc0E1ni
— jo (@genosbest) April 23, 2024
Evgeni Malkin and local McDonald's restaurants have donated $95,140 to @RMHCPghMgtn as part of Malkin's 'I’m Score for Kids' initiative.
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) April 22, 2024
That makes a grand total of $213,000 raised for the RMHC of Pittsburgh and Morgantown over the past two seasons.