What's Up with Pesonen?

Since Crosby was scratched yesterday due to a sore groin, Pesonen was called up and I just assumed that we would be seeing him play last night; we didn't.


According to some of the Pittsburgh announcers (Grover and Bourquie), there are a few players that have been pretty "banged-up" over the last few games (playing through minor bumps and bruises) and they want the extra player around just in case one of them need scratched and not necessarily to play right now. No one has actually gone into detail about who or what, but this is the probably explanation for Pessi being called up and scratched (he's a "stand-by").


Even so, Bill Thomas saw some ice time yesterday after being a healthy scratch for the last three games and he's proven he deserves to play.