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Sidney Crosby held out of Penguins final scrimmage Saturday

By Ian Oland

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July 25, 2020 4:37 pm

Superstar Sidney Crosby was held out of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday.

Crosby has been nursing an undisclosed injury over the last week.

The Penguins first announced Crosby would not play in a tweet where they published the lineups for each team.

Instead of participating, Crosby did work by himself on the Penguins’ second rink.

When asked, Penguins’ head coach Mike Sullivan had no comment on Crosby’s injury.

Crosby did speak, however, with reporters after practice in a Zoom call. Crosby said he hopes to practice Monday and play in the team’s exhibition against the Philadelphia Flyers, but he can’t say for sure.

“Things are moving in the right direction,” Crosby said. “Monday’s kind of the soonest getting out with the team. I’m hoping I can skate with the team Monday and take it from there. Ideally, I’d be able to play in that (exhibition) game, but if not, we’ll just go a day at a time from there.

“Ideally I would’ve liked to get in a little more of the scrimmages and game situation things,” he added. “But with that being said, I think the fact that I’ve been able to skate (on my own) for a good chunk of time will help getting through that.”

Crosby initially suffered his injury on July 18 during a previous intrasquad scrimmage, leaving mid-game. The Penguins captain returned to practice on July 24, receiving stick taps from his teammates.

“I felt pretty good,” Crosby said. “I had skated on my own on the other side for a good amount of time. It was just good to get out there with the guys and have a little bit more game situation stuff going on.”

The Penguins will leave for their bubble in Toronto this weekend. They will share a hotel, Hotel X, with the Washington Capitals and several other teams.

Screenshot courtesy of @penguins

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