Injury Update: toe & groin
Long quote with the most concise injury update:
The [toe] injury seemingly has healed — at least it has mended enough for Letang to experiment with stopping passes with his skate boots during an on-ice individual workout Friday morning.
Letang has been skating with Penguins strength and conditioning coach Mike Kadar, and his session Friday morning lasted about 45 minutes.
The original prognosis for Letang’s recovery was a week to 10 days.
Letang also is dealing with a sore groin, an injury that caused him to miss three games from March 19-24.
The groin injury most concerns the Penguins. Letang’s strength is his skating, and groins often do not fully heal without considerable rest.
Letang tested the groin Friday during drills designed to focus on his lateral movement while stick-handling the puck near the points. His skating during the workout mostly was limited to short bursts and quick starts and stops.
