{"id":296383,"date":"2025-10-12T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296383\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:20:13","slug":"east-notes-letang-soucy-lorentz-livingstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296383\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Letang, Soucy, Lorentz, Livingstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only having one shift in the third period of tonight\u2019s contest against the New York Rangers, many began to wonder if Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/letankr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kris Letang<\/a><\/strong> was dealing with an injury. That is indeed the case. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SethRorabaugh\/status\/1977192885121696149\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Seth Rorabaugh of The Tribune-Review<\/a>, Letang is being evaluated for an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing a few games last year due to injuries, Letang hasn\u2019t dealt with any serious issues since suffering a stroke early in the 2022-23 campaign. Since returning, he\u2019s appeared in 95.2% of all potential contests for the Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>In the offseason, the Penguins indicated that they\u2019d like to limit Letang\u2019s usage this season. However, before tonight\u2019s game against the Rangers, in which he played 15:29, Letang has averaged nearly 25 minutes a game, leading the team by a significant margin.<\/p>\n<p>Other notes from the Eastern Conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the other side of tonight\u2019s contest between the Penguins and Rangers, the winning team is dealing with a defenseman injury of its own. After only appearing in 6:35 of tonight\u2019s game, the Rangers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYR_PR\/status\/1977176764364542086\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that blueliner <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/soucyca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carson Soucy<\/a><\/strong> left the game due to an upper-body injury. There could be cause for concern given the nature of the injury. Attempting to hit Penguins forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rakelri01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rickard Rakell<\/a><\/strong>, Soucy missed the body check completely, flying awkwardly into the boards.<\/li>\n<li>In a separate Eastern Conference matchup, this time in the Atlantic Division, the Toronto Maple Leafs <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1977176897084850586\" rel=\"nofollow\">lost<\/a> forward<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lorenst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steven Lorentz<\/a><\/strong> to an upper-body injury. Lorentz\u2019s departure from tonight\u2019s game came early in the first period after being hit by Detroit Red Wings defenseman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/chiarbe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Chiarot<\/a><\/strong>. He skated in 1:17 of tonight\u2019s game, and the Maple Leafs added no further comments on the severity of his injury.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/charlottecheckers.com\/articles\/checkers-sign-jake-livingstone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to a team announcement<\/a>, the AHL\u2019s Charlotte Checkers, the main affiliate of the Florida Panthers, have signed defenseman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/livinja02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Livingstone<\/a><\/strong> to a contract for the 2025-26 season. The Minnesota State University alumnus has spent the last two years with the Milwaukee Admirals after debuting with the Nashville Predators in the 2022-23 season. In that two-year stint with the Admirals, Livingstone scored nine goals and 33 points in 127 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only having one shift in the third period of tonight\u2019s contest against the New York Rangers, many began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":296384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[10490,151319,1323,19176,151320,151321,1302,293,1334,62,151322,1304,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-296383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-carson-soucy","10":"tag-florida-panthers","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-jake-livingstone","13":"tag-kris-letang","14":"tag-new-york-rangers","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-steven-lorentz","19":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","20":"tag-transactions","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115359280262898744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}