The Penguins announced that they’ve sent goaltender Tristan Jarry back to Pittsburgh from their current road trip to work with their director of goaltending Jon Elkin. Head coach Mike Sullivan indicated that this was the plan heading into the trip which has two games remaining on it. Jarry is off to a particularly rocky start with a 5.47 GAA and a .836 SV% through his first three starts and while that’s a small sample size, he struggled late last season as well, eventually losing the starting role to Alex Nedeljkovic. The assignment will give Jarry a few days to reset away from the team and he will remain on the active roster during this time.
More from the Eastern Conference:
- Maple Leafs winger Calle Jarnkrok’s lower-body injury is believed to be a sports hernia, reports Sportsnet’s Luke Fox. The 33-year-old has filled an important middle-six role for Toronto over the last two years but hasn’t been able to play this season due to the injury. Jarnkrok is currently on LTIR and while he’s eligible to return in early November, that doesn’t seem likely to happen at this point as he has yet to skate since sustaining the injury.
- Senators center Shane Pinto is listed as a game-time decision for their game on Friday, relays Sportsnet’s Alex Adams (Twitter link). The 23-year-old is off to a decent start to his season with three points in six games while logging nearly 18 minutes a night. If he doesn’t play, Ridly Greig will likely move back to his natural position down the middle.
- Still with the Senators, Postmedia’s Bruce Garrioch suggests that Ottawa might need to make a move to shore up their goaltending depth with Mads Sogaard being injured last weekend. If they do look to do that, he feels they could once again turn to veteran Dustin Tokarski. Ottawa brought in the 35-year-old on a training camp tryout that ended without a contract but Tokarski hasn’t signed anywhere since. He spent last season with AHL Rochester, posting a 3.32 GAA and a .890 SV% in 24 games and is a veteran of more than 400 appearances at that level over 14 seasons.
Pens front office doing everything they can to publicly diminish Jarry. Almost like they want him to submit to taking the first ticket out of town they can find for him.
This makes zero sense. They can and likely will just waive him if he doesn’t improve. They are trying their best to get him back on track to help the team. He has zero trade value even with money retained, so their best bet is to just get him right.
And they “get him right” by very publicly announcing the starting goalie job is up for grabs, shortly followed by a very public reveal that they sent him back to Pittsburgh to work on his supposed issues? An odd way to “get him right” when all of this could have taken place professionally & behind the scenes (as most team issues are.)
He needs a wakeup. They aren’t tip toeing around the performance, but he needs to get his crap together.