CRANBERRY, Pa. -- If nothing else, Teddy Blueger has learned during the past month that he has a favorite food.
The kind that has to be chewed.
That hard (or is it mushy?) truth registered with him in the week or so after he underwent surgery to repair a fractured jaw Jan. 24, when the only things he needed at mealtimes were a cup, a straw and a blender.
"No foods were really very good blended-up," Blueger said after the Penguins' practice Wednesday at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. "The first week, not being able to have any solid foods, going into that I didn't think it was going to be too bad.