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Recap: Penguins lose season-defining game in season-defining ways

It’s the same forward lines for the Penguins, Drew O’Connor remains out with injury which opens the door for Alex Nylander. On defense Dmitry Kulikov is back from his injury, for his first game since March 12th.

Welcome back to the lineup, Dmitry Kulikov!#LetsGoPens pic.twitter.com/XGmdkmtF3j

— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) April 11, 2023

The visiting Chicago Blackhawks are using 11 forwards and seven defensemen as they limp down the stretch.

Blackhawks lines in warmups vs. Penguins:

TJohnson-Toews-Dickinson
Bjork-Athanasiou-Robinson
Katchouk-Zaitsev-Anderson
Wagner-Entwistle-RJohnson

CJones-SJones
Kaiser-Murphy
Englund-Mitchell

Mrazek

Yep, that's Zaitsev taking rushes as 3C.