skeleton crew required  Written by Zoe on .  Matt Cooke's much-
discussed hit on Fedor Tyutin last night has earned him a 4-game
suspension, and we head into tomorrow's home game against the
Los Angeles Kings one sudden broken finger away from signing
some dude off the street to a one-day tryout contract or some
shit.  The sudden loss of Chris Kunitz seemed devastating. You
wanted to take back all of the vicious comments you made about
his bad passes to Malkin, but you couldn't, because they'd
already been said. Now, Matt Cooke goes down, and when he isn't
charging people he's playing pretty good hockey with tons of
hustle. The Pens will undoubtedly need some offensive help.
Especially with this man in the house:  total intentional photo
choice.  Malkin's knee surgery is tomorrow, which makes the
reality of the Penguins' recent injury loss all the more real.
So far all of the injuries have come at forward, but when your
system emphasizes offensive zone shifts as the best defense, you
don't give your poor defen