Thursday night thoughts on the Penguins scrimmage

@penguins Some thoughts on tonight’s simulated game day for the Penguins:

—This game was a bit different since the Pens have a bigger compliment of players, affording each of the split squads a third line now that players have been cleared from their covid exposure related absence. And, for the first time, teams are a lot more balanced as well.

Or Team Gold?

Guentzel - Rodrigues - Sheary

Aston-Reese - Blueger - Tanev

A. Johnson - Lafferty - Angello

Pettersson - Marino

J. Johnson - Schultz

Czuczman

Jarry

Larmi

— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) July 23, 2020 —The first period ended with the teams trading three goals in the order of Black, Gold, Black. The game was incredibly free-flowing with very few…