Jesse Puljujärvi will not play when Pittsburgh faces the Anaheim Ducks in their next match. Valtteri Puustinen moves up to the second chain.
Jesse Puljujärvi the difficult situation in the NHL club Pittsburgh Penguins continues. After an upbeat early season, the Finnish forward has remained in a small role, where Ice Age and superior responsibility have been on the cards.
In Wednesday’s match against Minnesota, Puljujärvi played less than five minutes without any power points.
Now the Penguins pilot Mike Sullivan seems to leave Puljujärvi completely out of the lineup when the team meets the Anaheim Ducks next night Finnish time. The Finn didn’t fit into the lineup a couple of weeks ago against Toronto either.
A reporter following Pittsburgh By Dan Kinger and explaining the team’s matches By Josh Getzoff according to Puljujärvi was not involved in Penguins’ training chains. The Finn’s name cannot be found either From the NHL website About the preliminary lineups for the Anaheim match.
This season, three matches in a Penguins shirt with 1+0 pucks Valtteri Puustinen would be getting to the second chain by Lars Eller and by Drew O’Connor with. Puljujärvi has collected surfaces 1+4 in 10 matches.
The treatment of Puljujärvi has caused confusion in North America. Canadian hockey media The Hockey News wrote After the Minnesota game, that the Penguins miss their chance with Puljujärvi. The Finn has been according to statistics the fastest skater on his team this season.
– Puljujärvi should get more ice time in an attacking role, because he has been better at it than other attackers Sidney Crosby, Yevgeni Malkin, Rickard Rakellia and Lars Eller except.
The Kärpät-bred has scored only one less point than Malkin and two less than Crosby during the current six-game losing streak.
The early season of Pittsburgh, which is the jumbo of the Eastern Conference, has been tight. They have won just three of their 11 matches and are on a six match losing streak.