Jordan Staal, Brooks Orpik, and Arron Asham are all back at practice for the Pens. Staal has an infected foot, Orpik has a sore groin, and Asham has a shoulder injury. Orpik will probably be back fairly soon, while Asham will return in a week or so. As for Staal, he could be back sooner than anticipated:
↵Staal, who hadn't practiced with his teammates since spring, felt good enough when it was over to proclaim that, "I think I could play tomorrow."↵Staal didn't mean for that to be taken literally -- he acknowledged that "that's always going to be the way I think" -- but his return to the ice went well enough that he didn't rule out playing sometime in the next couple of weeks.
↵"I would say so," he said, adding that "I have to be smart about it."
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