Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said injured forward Evgeni Malkin’s status remains the same following the club’s Monday afternoon practice in Cranberry.

Malkin, 38, was placed on injured reserve with an undisclosed ailment Jan. 27 and is out week-to-week.

He skated individually Monday ahead of the Penguins’ full team session.

Through 47 games, Malkin has nine goals with 25 assists and was averaging 18 minutes, 3 seconds of nightly ice time.

Notes:

The Penguins deployed the following lines, defensive pairings and power-play groups Monday:

67 Rickard Rakell - 87 Sidney Crosby - 17 Bryan Rust

8 Michael Bunting - 19 Cody Glass - 43 Danton Heinen

72 Anthony Beauvillier - 13 Kevin Hayes - 53 Phil Tomasino

14 Boko Imama - 46 Blake Lizotte - 55 Noel Acciari

73 P.O Joseph - 58 Kris Letang

24 Matt Grzelcyk - 65 Erik Karlsson

27 Ryan Graves - 7 Vincent Desharnais

First power-play: Crosby, Rust, Bunting, Rakell, Grzelcyk

Second power-play: Heinen, Hayes, Tomasino, Letang, Karlsson

• Matt Nieto and Ryan Shea skated as a reserve fourth defensive pairing.

• Winger Jesse Puljujarvi practiced Monday but was not included in line rushes.

Nedeljkovic weighs in on Browns

Shortly after the Penguins took the ice for practice Monday, news broke that Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett had requested a trade from the team.

Garrett, 29, a four-time first-team All-Pro selection and the 2023 Defensive Player of the Year, was the first overall draft pick in 2017 and has played his entire eight-year career with Cleveland.

While he had to wait roughly an hour until the Penguins completed practice to be in a position to learn of the news, Browns superfan Alex Nedeljkovic, a native of Parma, Ohio, did find out soon enough.

“Tough one. Cornerstone piece, one of the best, if not the best defensive player in the game right now,” Nedeljkovic said of Garrett. “That’s tough. But I respect it though — he’s a winner and the guy wants to win. … Kind of stings seeing if he’s not going to be around, it doesn’t really sound like the organization’s headed the right way in terms of going for a Super Bowl.”

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Nedeljkovic owns a Garrett jersey, going as far as to wear it proudly while conducting a postgame interview at PPG Paints Arena after the Browns beat the Steelers in November of 2023.