NHL Buzz: Penguins' Malkin, Canucks' Hughes in COVID protocol

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• "Obviously we are disappointed," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said Monday.
• Malkin is on a nine-game point streak (three goals, seven assists) and scored 13 points (five goals, eight assists) in 12 games since making his season debut against the Anaheim Ducks on Jan.
• He missed the first 34 games recovering from knee surgery he had in June.
• Puustinen led Wilkes-Barre/Scranton with 27 points (13 goals, 14 assists) in 40 games and has not made his NHL debut.
• Chaput has played 182 NHL games, including 13 with the Arizona Coyotes last season.
• The forward missed two games with an upper-body injury sustained Jan.
• "When I slipped in the boards there, something [hit] but I was able to play the rest of game," Foligno said Monday.
• The forward has missed the past 11 games and has played two games since Nov.
• Brassard scored 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in 19 games this season.
• 25 after missing 16 games following surgery for an upper-body injury.
• He played two games before missing the Sabres' final game prior to the NHL All-Star break.
• Mittelstadt, who has one goal and one assist in seven games, missed 21 games with an upper-body injury sustained Oct.
• Girgensons has missed eight of the past nine games with a lower-body injury.
• He scored 12 points (seven goals, five assists) in 34 games.
• The forward scored five points (two goals, three assists) in 11 games with New York.
• 22 and was scratched the past five games.
• In 136 NHL games with the Islanders, Calgary Flames and Boston Bruins, Czarnik scored 43 points (15 goals, 28 assists).
• Dubois is second on the Jets in goals (18) and points (33), behind forward Kyle Connor (25 goals, 45 points).
• Quinn Hughes was placed in NHL COVID-19 protocol Monday and is expected to miss the next three games.
• The defenseman is second on Vancouver with 34 points (two goals, 32 assists) and leads them with an average ice time of 25:13 in 45 games.
• "If you look at the amount of goals he creates from the back end to a team that is somewhat offensively challenged, and he's the best creator of our offense from the back end, that's going to be the challenge," Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau said Monday
• Forwards Elias Pettersson and Matthew Highmore, and defenseman Tucker Poolman also missed practice Monday
• Poolman, who missed the final three games before the NHL All-Star break with an illness, is "still feeling under the weather," Boudreau said

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