PREGAME: Pens vs. Habs

Consol Energy Center. 7:00. ROOT.

Finally, after what seems like forever...... IT'S A HOCKEY NIGHT IN PITTSBURGH! Our Pens (40-15-3) are back from the Olympic break and tonight they will take on the Montreal Canadiens (32-21-7). The last 10 games for these two teams are almost evenly matched, the Pens being 6-3-1 and the Habs being 5-3-2, but the break can typically have a way of turning things on their heads. Price will be out for the Habs, so Budaj will be in net. Hey, remember when MAF and Budaj tried to scrap?

Joe Vitale and Taylor Pyatt will both be back in the line-up tonight (fan girls, rejoice!). Despres has been recalled so he will be in the line-up as well. Plus, it seems that we have a pissed off, "dark place" Evgeni Malkin who apparently looks as though he's going to kill someone so... Yeah.

LINES:

(Via Daily Faceoff)

Kunitz - Crosby - Gibbons

Jokinen - Malkin - Neal

Glass - Sutter - Kobasew

Pyatt - Vitale - Adams

Maatta - Niskanen

Scuderi - Bortuzzo

Orpik - Despres

Fleury

Pacioretty - Desharnais - Gallagher

Briere - Plekanec - Gionta

Galchenyuk - Eller - Bourque

Moen - White - Weise

Gorges - Subban

Markov - Emelin

Tinordi - Murray

Budaj

INJURY UPDATES:
The Pens have posted two updates on their site. One update is for Kris Letang that you can read here, and the other is for Pascal Dupuis that can be read here.

LET'S GO PENS!