On Saturday night, Ville Koivunen was busy scoring the game-winner in overtime to keep Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s perfect start to the season alive.

His reward was a postgame plane trip from Charlotte, where the Penguins outlasted the Checkers 3-2, to Pittsburgh, where he was needed with the parent club on Sunday. Pittsburgh announced that top-line winger Rickard Rakell would miss 6-8 weeks following surgery on a broken hand, and Koivunen was promoted to take his roster spot.

“Always fun to win,” Koivunen told reporters in Cranberry Township after Sunday’s practice . “Even better when you get a call back up here. Also, pretty tired.”

The Finnish forward opened the season with the big club, but after two rocky performances playing mostly on a line with future Hall of Famer Sidney Crosby, th

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