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Well, it looks like three-straight years of Stanley Cup Final appearances (not to mention numerous players involved in 4 Nations and Olympics) caught up in a major way with Florida. The tone for the season was set when captain Aleksander Barkov went down with a knee injury in September and was lost for the year. It\u2019s only been downhill from there with injuries and down seasons across the board. Truly a team that\u2019s hit the wall and run out of gas, but what a run they had from 2023-25.<\/p>\n
And now for the Pens<\/p>\n
Projected lines\u00a0<\/p>\n
FORWARDS<\/p>\n
Egor Chinakhov \u2013 Sidney Crosby \u2013 Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
Tommy Novak \u2013 Rickard Rakell \u2013 Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n
Anthony Mantha \u2013 Ben Kindel \u2013 Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n
Elmer Soderblom \u2013 Connor Dewar \u2013 Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
DEFENSEMEN<\/p>\n
Parker Wotherspoon \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Sam Girard \/ Kris Letang<\/p>\n
Ryan Shea \/ Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
Goalies:\u00a0Stuart Skinner and Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
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Potential Scratches: Ilya Solovyov, Blake Lizotte (injured), Kevin Hayes, Ryan Graves, Jack St. Ivany<\/p>\n
IR:\u00a0Filip Hallander, Caleb Jones (season-ending shoulder surgery)<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be interesting to see for the Penguins if anyone can\u2019t answer the bell for another game today. Rust, Dewar, Kindel and Brazeau all took some lumps yesterday. Hockey players can play through a lot, and a three-day rest is on the horizon but this might be a time to give someone who isn\u2019t 100% a day off with the bigger picture in mind of hopefully getting them ready for Thursday and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This all feels very familiar.. Who:\u00a0Florida Panthers\u00a0(37-36-3, 77 points, 7th place Atlantic Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins\u00a0(39-22-16, 94 points,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99306,54029,80916,98425,25443,98441,98429,98433,6502,98420,99288,99553,98861,99294,98862,98436,98423,99287,98863,99297,99284,98435,98426,98443,99299,41254,98438,28,30,29,4375,99302,55885,98442,99298,98440,98422,98445,99292,99295,53656,96552,99301,44030,20339,99304,99290,98448,99305,4347,21421,98437,17775,15952,98424,98432,98449,99289,98450,54023,53657,54026,98421,99285,98446,23274,99303,99291,98434,47093,99296],"class_list":{"0":"post-219490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-a-j-greer","9":"tag-aaron-ekblad","10":"tag-aleksander-barkov","11":"tag-anthony-mantha","12":"tag-anton-lundell","13":"tag-arturs-silovs","14":"tag-ben-kindel","15":"tag-blake-lizotte","16":"tag-brad-marchand","17":"tag-bryan-rust","18":"tag-caleb-jones","19":"tag-calgary","20":"tag-carter-verhaeghe","21":"tag-cole-reinhardt","22":"tag-cole-schwindt","23":"tag-connor-clifton","24":"tag-connor-dewar","25":"tag-daniil-tarasov","26":"tag-dmitry-kulikov","27":"tag-donovan-sebrango","28":"tag-eetu-luostarinen","29":"tag-egor-chinakhov","30":"tag-elmer-soderblom","31":"tag-erik-karlsson","32":"tag-evan-rodrigues","33":"tag-evgeni-malkin","34":"tag-filip-hallander","35":"tag-florida","36":"tag-florida-headlines","37":"tag-florida-news","38":"tag-getty-images","39":"tag-gustav-forsling","40":"tag-ilya-solovyov","41":"tag-jack-st-ivany","42":"tag-jesper-boqvist","43":"tag-justin-brazeau","44":"tag-kevin-hayes","45":"tag-kris-letang","46":"tag-luke-kunin","47":"tag-mackie-samoskevich","48":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","49":"tag-metropolitan-division","50":"tag-michael-benning","51":"tag-montreal","52":"tag-new-jersey","53":"tag-niko-mikkola","54":"tag-noah-gregor","55":"tag-noel-acciari","56":"tag-nolan-foote","57":"tag-pa","58":"tag-panthers","59":"tag-parker-wotherspoon","60":"tag-pittsburgh","61":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","62":"tag-rickard-rakell","63":"tag-ryan-graves","64":"tag-ryan-shea","65":"tag-sam-bennett","66":"tag-sam-girard","67":"tag-sam-reinhart","68":"tag-sergei-bobrovsky","69":"tag-seth-jones","70":"tag-sidney-crosby","71":"tag-sportsnet-pittsburgh","72":"tag-stuart-skinner","73":"tag-the-panthers","74":"tag-tobias-bjornfot","75":"tag-tomas-nosek","76":"tag-tommy-novak","77":"tag-uvis-balinskis","78":"tag-vinnie-hinostroza"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}