It's a good thing the Penguins picked up all of those players around the deadline without sending any roster players away.

From Josh Yohe:

Fleury's wife about to have baby. Letang has food poisoning. Bennett day to say with upper body injury. All out tonight.

— Josh Yohe (@JoshYohe_Trib) April 22, 2013

That means Crosby, Malkin, Neal, Martin, Letang, Bennett and Fleury will all be out. According to the Pens' website, the following players took part in an optional morning skate:

Morrow, Jokinen, MacIntyre, Jeffrey, Dupuis, Adams, Glass, Cooke, Sutter, Kennedy, Orpik, Bortuzzo, Eaton, Engelland, Despres, Niskanen, Vokoun and Hartzell.

This should be a fun one. You're guessing the total number of penalty minutes for both teams combined.

1. Winner gets $50.

2. Closest above or below the final total wins.

3. In the event of a tie, finalists meet in the schoolyard Tuesday night.

4. Entries submitted after the opening faceoff will not be valid.

Copy and paste:

@Pensblog 47PIM #CookeStrong

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Also, you have to wonder if the Senators -- looking at Chris Neil here -- are going to target one of the Penguins' star players? The Pens are in a bit of a hard place with this. On one hand, it would be nice to get at least get Malkin or Martin some playing time. But the Senators organization is completely unstable and is seeking retribution against the Pens for the Karlsson injury.

Here are some possible options:

Nice catch by Mikey and Big Bob.

Awesome stuff. It's a rare thing these days for someone to make a video that actually means something.

The playoffs are almost here and we're all checking out potential playoff match-ups. The Penguins have secured the top seed in the East, so they'll meet the 8th seed in round one.

If you look at the current standings, that means the Pens will likely face off against the New York Rangers, Winnipeg Jets, Ottawa Senators or possibly the New York Islanders in the first round.

So here are the storylines that you can expect the media to drive into the ground for each of those match-ups.

So after Jack Edwards made his now famous comments about Matt Cooke in the first period, he had someone to deal with during the first intermission.

Ray Shero.

Via the PG:

Penguins general manager Ray Shero was visibly enraged when he learned of Edwards' comments and confronted him in the first intermission.

Edwards apologized shortly thereafter.

This immediately reminds us of that episode back in the 2009 playoffs when cops were called to some kid's house because he said he was gonna kill Ovechkin or something on a message board.

Some site called Red Scarf Union is organizing a Matt Cooke Hate Fest. It actually sounds pretty serious. Wouldn't be surprised to see the local police notified.

Read more about this Hate Fest here.

The SenShot website is not a fan of the Hate Fest.

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