Pens Points: Off-Day Blues

Here are your Tuesday morning Pens Points on this first day of November...

Bill West highlights the penalty kill's struggles and how that results from taking too many penalties. [Trib Live]

So, it's no surprise that Carl Hagelin and Bryan Rust are fast, but where did all that speed come from? [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

ICYMI, Pensburgh's own Hooks Orpik reviews the Ups and Downs through the first month of the season. [Pensburgh]

News and notes from around the NHL...

Bob McKenzie says Jacob Trouba only really has two choices. [TSN]

Senators goalie, Craig Anderson, turned in a 37-save shutout as he revealed that his wife has cancer. [Puck Daddy]

If Evander Kane can stay out of trouble, the charges against him will be dropped. [NBC Sports]

Top Habs prospect, Mikhail Sergachev, has been sent back to juniors. The Canadiens and and Sergachev's OHL team, the Spitfires, view this as a plus. [Sportsnet]

The Stars have lost forward Ales Hemsky for 5-6 months due to surgery on a torn labrum. [CBS Sports]

Will McDavid v. Matthews become the next great rivalry? [CBC]