Newcomers, no 87, 71

Saturday, 12 January 2013 16:15

Written by Shelly Anderson

The Penguins are going through what should be their final drills without coaches today at Southpointe. It's a mixed group.

Eric Tangradi, Beau Bennett, Simon Despres and Jayson Megna have joined the team from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. Several other regulars are not skating, including centers Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.

Here's the list of who is on the ice: Deryk Engelland, Ben Lovejoy, Paul Martin, Pascal Dupuis, Tanner Glass, Megna, Dustin Jeffrey, James Neal, Bennett, Tangradi, Craig Adams, Joe Vitale, Despres, Kris Letang, Marc-Andre Fleury and Tomas Vokoun.

By the way, still no announcement from the NHL and the NHLPA that the players have ratified the latest collective bargaining agreement and the sides have signed off on a memorandum of understanding. We still think that will happen sometime today, opening the door for the NHL to be back in business and team schedules to be released.