After a seemingly never-ending almost two hour tribute to Dustin Brown, the game finally begins. Kris Letang is back from a one-game absence to due to injury and the Penguins elect to bump Chad Ruhwedel and not Mark Friedman from the lineup. Casey DeSmith is also going to do something not done by a Penguins’ goalie since 2019 by starting both games in a back-to-back, which usually does not tend to work out well historically speaking.
Here's a look at the line combos that the Penguins will use in this late-night matchup u2b07ufe0f pic.