Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev will miss time with upper-body injuries, but there's a silver lining. One of their top prospects will make his NHL debut.

Entering play on Monday, there have been only three games this season where an NHL team lost after leading by at least three goals entering the third period. The Pittsburgh Penguins own all of them. The Penguins are 2-1-2 in those situations,

It was a weekend to forget for the Pittsburgh Penguins, who played some good hockey for most of their two games against the San Jose Sharks and Utah Mammoth,

With that in mind, the Penguins recalled young goaltender Sergei Murashov from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on an emergency basis for Saturday's game. The goalie tandem for Saturday will be Arturs Silovs and Murashov, with Silovs starting.

San Jose Sharks’ Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev now on IR after exiting Saturday’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins

The San Jose Sharks placed forwards Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev on injured reserve Monday. In corresponding moves, they recalled forwards Igor Chernyshov and Ethan Cardwell from the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda.

When Will Smith — the other pillar of this franchise’s future and Celebrini’s winger — took a tough (but clean) hit from Penguins defenseman Parker Wotherspoon with 16:35 to play in the third and the Sharks only down 4-1 (Pittsburgh would go up 5-1 on the subsequent power play), it was Celebrini who stepped in to defend his teammate.

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