Sidney Crosby, each team’s captain, returned to the ice on Thursday and skated on his own for the first time since suffering an upper-body injury on Tuesday. But the 37-year-old only appeared alongside his teammates at practice for a few minutes before moving into his solo work,

The Pittsburgh Penguins was nowhere to be found at the first team practice since a scary in-game incident forced him to retreat to the locker room momentarily.

• Ville Koivunen and Vasily Ponomarev, two of the prospects acquired in the Penguins’ Jake Guentzel trade last season, each turned hat tricks. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton had never had two players score hat tricks in the same game.