A lot of wholesale changes up front, with all new lines after Bryan Rust and Brock McGinn are absent due to COVID protocol. The Penguins have to play with only 11 forwards, but add in Mark Friedman as a seventh defender and still have their defensive stability with the same regular pairs they’ve been able to use for now about 30 games.
First period
Six minutes in and it’s the visitors who strike first. Brian Dumoulin is given space in the offensive zone, so he takes it and skates up the left side.