The Penguins’ perfect attendance club shrinks from 4 to 2 as Brandon Tanev (illness) and Dominik Simon (out with injury) miss their first game of the season — leaving only Teddy Blueger and Marcus Pettersson going 65/65 so far this year.
But the bigger story is the defensive returns of Brian Dumoulin and John Marino, who both immediately jump back into top-four roles.
And the first time Marino steps on the ice, he scores. Evgeni Malkin plays the puck diagonally back to him and Marino just quickly puts a puck on net and.