Preseason Game Day #2: Pens vs. Blackhawks

Pittsburgh Penguins (1-0-0) vs. Chicago Blackhawks (0-1-0)

7:00 P.M. CONSOL Energy Center

TV: Root Sports Pittsburgh--NHLN for those outside of the Pittsburgh TV Market

Radio: 105.9 The X--Also streaming on the Pens' website.

Another day, another preseason game. Tonight the Chicago Blackhawks will stroll into town as the opponent for the Penguins' second preseason game in as many days. The good news is that the Pens will start a different group of guys for tonights games. Pittsburgh fans will also get to see hometown native Brandon Saad make his NHL debut.

Last Meeting: The Blackhaws defeated the Penguins in Chicago last year 3-2 in a shootout. Matt Cooke and Brett Sterling tallied the goals for the Penguins. Patrick Sharp and Bryan Bickell scored the goals for the Blackhawks. Patrick Kane scored the only goal in the shootout.

Blackhawks Lineup

Forwards: 

13 Daniel Carcillo 

23 Brett McLean

29 Bryan Bickel

37 Brandon Pirri

43 Brandon Saad

49 Christopher Didomenico

52 Brandon Bollig

58 Byron Froese

59 Rob Klinkhammer

65 Andrew Shaw

67 MIchael Frolik

72 Peter Leblanc

Defensemen

6 Sean O'Donnell

8 Nick Leddy

20 Sami Lepisto

32 John Scott

42 Shawn Lalonde

46 Joe Lavin

56 Brian Connelly

Goalies

30 Ray Emery

53 Alexander Salak

Penguins Lineup--These lines were used at practice this morning. 

Forwards

48 Tyler Kennedy--11 Jordan Staal -- 28 Nick Johnson

25 Eric Tangradi--10 Mark Letestu--19 Jason Williams

24 Matt Cooke--69--Bryan Lerg--27 Craig Adams

33 Steve MacIntyre--51 Zach Sill--42 Keven Veilleux

Defensemen

54 Alexandre Picard--4 Zbynek Michalek

37 Brian Strait--5 Deryk Engelland

78 Scott Harrington--6 Ben Lovejoy

Players to Watch

Eric Tangradi-- Eric Tangradi enters this years training camp needing to make an impression. He will get his first chance tonight against the Hawks. While he should have had a chance to make an impact last year, he was sidelined for a while in that nonsense of a hockey game on Long Island. The once promising prospect seems to have fallen out of Bylsma's favor. It's time of the puppy dog--errr Big Dog to show what he is all about

Brandon Saad--The Kid is from Pittsburgh playing in his first NHL game in Pittsburgh. Support him. He's one of us.

The Blue Line--The battle for the last two or three spots should heat up with Matty Nice having a good game last night. Will be interesting to see how the 5th, 6th and 7th spots fill out.