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Penguins players, coaches honor nurses

Wednesday was National Nurses Day, a day that carried a little more significance this year as nurses work on the front lines to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

Penguins players, coaches, and management honored nurses by putting their names on the back of their jerseys:

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Tristan Jarry. -- PENGUINS / TWITTER[/caption]

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Jim Rutherford. -- PENGUINS / TWITTER[/caption]

Bryan Rust's jersey featured the name of nurse Ellen Roantree, who is also the girlfriend of his brother-in-law Jarrett Burton, a former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguin:

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Tyler Kennedy, Sergei Gonchar.