Friday, November 21, 2014

Gameday: Game 18 - Islanders vs. Penguins


Consol Energy Center - 7PM

TV: ROOT Sports
Radio: 105.9 The X

Tonight the Pens welcome the New York Islanders to Pittsburgh for the first game of a home and home series. The rivalry between the Islanders and the Penguins has really heated up over the past couple seasons since the Islanders decided to stop being terrible. A home and home between the two top teams in the Metro will definitely get that bad blood flowing again. Tonight is also the first game since the news about Dupuis broke. Hopefully Consol shows Dupuis on the video board at some point so the Consol crowd actually makes some noise.   

Lines: (Daily Faceoff)                                            

Kunitz - Crosby - Comeau 
Spaling - Malkin - Hornqvist 
Bennett - Sutter - Downie 
Sill - Goc - Adams

Martin - Letang 
Maatta - Ehrhoff
Scuderi - Despres

Fleury


Nelson - Tavares - Kulemin
Grabovski - Nielsen - Okposo
Lee - Strome - Bailey
Martin - Cizikas - Clutterbuck 

Haan - Hamonic 
Leddy - Boychuk 
Hickey - Visnovsky 

Johnson 

Notes/Thoughts: 
  • Marc-Andre Fleury is in net and going for win number 300. 
  • The Penguins (13-3-1) and the Islanders (12-6-0) are the first and second place teams in the Metro.
  • The Pens beat the Islanders 3-1 earlier in the season. Steve Downie ended lives that night.

Clean hit IMO


Go Pens 



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