The Penguins opened the 2025.26 preseason with a 2-1 shootout loss to Montreal at Bell Centre, with Tristan Broz scoring the lone goal for Pittsburgh. This is the lineup that Dan Muse and his staff put together:<\/p>\n
Danton Heinen \u2013 Tristan Broz \u2013 Anthony Mantha<\/p>\n
Rafael Harvey-Pinard \u2013 Tommy Novak \u2013 Valtteri Puustinen<\/p>\n
Robby Fabbri \u2013 Joona Koppanen \u2013 Avery Hayes<\/p>\n
Sam Poulin \u2013 Ben Kindel \u2013 Boko Imama<\/p>\n
Ryan Graves \u2013 Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
Ryan Shea \u2013 Matt Dumba<\/p>\n
Owen Pickering \u2013 Harrison Brunicke<\/p>\n
Joel Blomqvist<\/p>\n
Sergei Murashov<\/p>\n
Before training camp opened, Penguins President of Hockey Operations and GM Kyle Dubas had this to say about the situation between the pipes, with five goalies on NHL contracts:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’ll start competing here today, and the best two goalies… with the way that they perform in camp and we deem is best for their development, but notably, the way they perform in camp and preseason… will determine who the two goalies are to start with the Penguins. Their contract situations, none of that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dubas talked about how the two young goalies who split the net tonight have extremely high potential, and that was on display.<\/p>\n
Blomqvist, who made his NHL debut last season after being named an AHL All-Star in 2023-24, was rock solid. The 2020 second-round pick stopped all 11 shots he faced in the first half of the game before Sergei Murashov took over. The 2022 fourth-round pick was a treat to watch with his talent and athleticism.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want hard decisions,\u201d Muse said. \u201cWe want guys to be constantly taking advantage of opportunities. Both guys came over tonight and played really well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins opened the 2025.26 preseason with a 2-1 shootout loss to Montreal at Bell Centre, with Tristan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-162767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}