Penguins lose Brooks Orpik for 2 weeks

Injuries have struck the Pittsburgh Penguins once again, this time injuries have struck Brooks Orpik. Now the Penguins are without Sergei Gonchar, Kris Letang and Brooks Orpik on the blueline. Don’t forget about Evgeni Malkin, Max Talbot and Tyler Kennedy upfront.

Another day, another injury. Or so it seems for the Penguins these days.

In the team’s most recent health setback, it was announced Thursday that defenseman Brooks Orpik will be out of the lineup for the next two weeks with a lower-body injury.

“He’s got a two-week injury, lower body,” head coach Dan Bylsma said. “We were excited that he was doing better than we feared. He’s doing well. We got some good news and he’ll hopefully be around 14 days.”

Orpik left Pittsburgh’s game Tuesday night in Boston in the first period after falling awkwardly into the boards and did not return in the game.

With the Orpik out, the Penguins have now lost a player in each of their past three games, and four in the last two weeks.

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