For the first time since the seventh grade picnic, Nick Bjugstad is back in the lineup for the Penguins. Brandon Tanev is back from a one game illness absence. Matt Murray gets the intriguing second start in a row, break a month long pattern of rotating the goalies.
Really wide-open free-flowing first period early with the puck going up and down the ice. Patric Hornqvist scores a goal with a nice power move to the net, and Bjugstad is driving too. Bjugstad is tripped up by a Sabres’ player and he comically flies into goalie Jonas Johansson who is knocked on his rump.