WASHINGTON -- Hours before the Penguins' 4-3 overtime victory over the Capitals on Thursday night at the Verizon Center, Beau Bennett was taking regular rushes with the fourth line at the morning skate.
Right after the skate, Bennett and I had a lengthy talk at his stall, mostly about how he's worked to fit into Mike Sullivan's speed-based system despite "not exactly being a burner," as he jokingly put it.
Then, he was gone. Again.
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He was announced as a scratch before faceoff, then, after the game, Sullivan confirmed what pretty much any lucid observer of the Penguins would have suspected: He was scratched because he was hurt.
"Beau's been dealing with the same injury that he's been dealing with in the three months that I've been here," Sullivan said. "And so, obviously, we've got to be somewhat cautious because he's had a hard time with that injury."
The injury has never been disclosed, but it's long been believed to be a shoulder.
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