NEW YORK -- The Penguins' 2019-20 season is beginning to feel like a bad romance novel: The hurt never seems to stop hurting.
Justin Schultz will be out of the lineup "longer-term,"Mike Sullivan told reporters here at Barclays Center two hours before faceoff with the Islanders, with what he called "a lower-body injury." Sullivan's use of "longer-term" usually denotes that a player will miss weeks rather than days. Schultz made an early exit from practice Wednesday, but Sullivan balked when I asked if the injury occurred there or had been lingering.
"It's always hard to know," he replied.