COVID-us Interruptus, Part 1 of ?

Thanks to the New Jersey Devils, of which nearly half the team must have thought it would be funny to have a COVID party, the Pittsburgh Penguins have their first real break of the season. Having last played on Sunday, their next game isn’t until Saturday at Nassau Veterans Coliseum against the New York Islanders. The Islanders have won nine of the last twelve games against Pittsburgh, including their four-game sweep in the first round of the 2019 playoffs. In the meantime, I wanted to fill the time in-between with a post of news and notes from around the League, as well as some personal thoughts about how things are going. I have a sneaking suspicion that we’ll have to do this more than once this season, hence the question mark.

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