Game 1 - Pens at Flyers

Wells Fargo Center - 3:00 p.m. on NBC

It's been too long.

Way too long.

The last game played haunts all of our memories.

But none of that matters anymore.  What happened last season happened last season.

There were a lot of highs....

...and a lot of lows.

But alas it is a new season.  The lockout took almost half of it from us. 

The Pens have a new look this year, having traded Staal and Michalek, bringing in Tanner Glass and Brandon Sutter, and bringing some of the younger guys up from WBS.  The shortened schedule renders dead the old addage "It's a marathon, not a sprint."

It's a sprint to the playoffs, and it starts today.

Lineups for today:

PENS

Chris Kunitz - Sidney Crosby - Pascal Dupuis
Eric Tangradi - Evgeni Malkin - James Neal
Matt Cooke - Brandon Sutter - Tyler Kennedy
Tanner Glass - Joe Vitale - Craig Adams

Matt Niskanen - Kris Letang
Brooks Orpik - Paul Martin
Simon Despres - Deryk Engelland

Marc Andre Fleury

FLYERS

Scott Hartnell - Claude Giroux - Brayden Schenn
Maxime Talbot - Sean Couturier - Jakub Voracek
Wayne Simmonds - Scott Laughton - Matt Read
Ruslan Fedoteno - Eric Wellwood - Zac Rinaldo

Braydon Coburn - Nicklas Grossman
Kimmo Timonen - Luke Schenn
Andrej Meszaros - Kurtis Foster

Ilya Bryzgalov

It's a great day for hockey