Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Preseason Game-day #1: Pens vs. Red Wings



Who: Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Detroit Red Wings
When: 7:00 PM
Where: CONSOL Energy Center
TV: Root Sports for you Yinzers. NHL Network for those outside of the Burgh Area


Camp Bylsma is six days old, and the Pittsburgh Penguins are set to take on the Detroit Red Wings in their first preseason game of the 2011-12 season. While these games mean nothing in the long run, they will give fans a chance to watch the Pens' roster come-to-form for the regular season. 

Detroit Red Wings Roster

Forwards
11 Dan Cleary
15 Fabian Brunnstrom
17 Patrick Eaves
20 Drew Miller
21 Tomas Tatar
24 Pavel Datsyuk
26 Jiri Hudler
39 Jan Mursak
41 Chris Conner
42 Ryan Johnson
48 Corey Emmerton
96 Tomas Holmstrom

Defense
2 Brendan Smith
3 Garnet Exelby
22 Mike Commodore
23 Brad Stuart
32 Logan Pyett
55 Niklas Kronwall

Goalies
31 Joey MacDonald
35 Jimmy Howard

Pittsburgh Penguins Roster

Forwards
9 Pascal Dupuis
12 Richard park
14 Chris Kunitz
18 James Neal
23 Ryan Craig
38 Colin McDonald
45 Arron Asham
46 Joe Vitale
56 Paul Thompson
57 Brain Gibbons
67 Geoff Walker
71 Evgeni Malkin

Defense
2 Matt Niskanen
7 Paul Martin
55 Phillip Samuelsson
58 Kris Letang
59 Carl Sneep
70 Joseph Morrow

Goalies
29 Marc-Andre Fleury *
39 Brad Thiessen
* MAF will play the first and second periods, and Thiessen will go in the third.

The Pens' lines looked like this at this mornings practice:

Kunitz-Malkin-Neal
Dupuis-Park-Asham
Gibbons-Vitale-McDonald
Thompson-Craig-Walker



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