PENGUINS (33-18-15) at AVALANCHE (44-12-9)<\/p>\n
9:30 p.m. ET; SN-PIT, ESPN, Prime, TVAS<\/p>\n
Penguins projected lineup<\/p>\n
Anthony Mantha — Rickard Rakell — Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
Egor Chinakhov — Tommy Novak — Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
Ville Koivunen — Ben Kindel — Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n
Elmer Soderblom — Connor Dewar — Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
Parker Wotherspoon — Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Ryan Shea — Kris Letang<\/p>\n
Ilya Solovyov — Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Stuart Skinner<\/p>\n
Scratched: Jack St. Ivany, Avery Hayes<\/p>\n
Injured: Blake Lizotte (undisclosed), Sidney Crosby (lower body), Caleb Jones (lower body), Samuel Girard (upper body), Kevin Hayes (upper body), Filip Hallander (blood clot)<\/p>\n
Avalanche projected lineup<\/p>\n
Nazem Kadri — Nathan MacKinnon — Martin Necas<\/p>\n
Nicolas Roy — Brock Nelson — Valeri Nichushkin<\/p>\n
Parker Kelly — Jack Drury — Joel Kiviranta<\/p>\n
Gavin Brindley — Zakhar Bardakov<\/p>\n
Devon Toews — Cale Makar<\/p>\n
Josh Manson — Brent Burns<\/p>\n
Brett Kulak — Sam Malinski<\/p>\n
Nick Blankenburg<\/p>\n
Scott Wedgewood<\/p>\n
Mackenzie Blackwood<\/p>\n
Scratched: None<\/p>\n
Injured: Ross Colton (upper body), Gabriel Landeskog (lower body), Artturi Lehkonen (upper body), Logan O\u2019Connor (hip surgery)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Malkin will return after serving a five-game suspension for slashing defenseman Rasmus Dahlin in a 5-1 loss against the Buffalo Sabres on March 5. \u2026 Brazeau will return after missing the past four games with an upper-body injury. \u2026 St. Ivany, a defenseman, was recalled on Monday from his conditioning stint with the Penguins of the American Hockey League. \u2026 Colorado will go with 11 forwards and seven defensemen for the third straight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENGUINS (33-18-15) at AVALANCHE (44-12-9) 9:30 p.m. ET; SN-PIT, ESPN, Prime, TVAS Penguins projected lineup Anthony Mantha —…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-540796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}