After a spectacular performance Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Penguins (1-0-0) make their home debut Saturday against the young but very good Montreal Canadiens (1-0-0) at PPG Paints Arena. <\/p>\n
The puck drops just after 7 p.m. <\/p>\n
The Penguins hung seven goals on the hated Philadelphia Flyers Wednesday. A couple of first-period goals became a few second-period goals and then a couple of later goals in the third period amounted to a 7-0 win at Xfinity Mobile Arena. <\/p>\n
Nick Robertson scored a pair of goals for the Penguins, the first goal of the season, and later scored a shorthanded goal in the third to increase the lead to 6-0. Filip Hallander had a goal and two assists, and the Penguins\u2019 third line, with him, Ville Koivunen, and center Hendrix Lapierre, was dominant. Each scored a goal. <\/p>\n
Evgeni Malkin scored a power-play goal in the second period, assisted by Lapierre, and Egor Chinakhov deflected Erik Karlsson\u2019s shot for a third-period power-play goal. <\/p>\n
Arturs Silovs<\/a> stopped all 19 shots he faced for the shutout win, the second year in a row in which the Penguins won their first game via a Silovs shutout. <\/p>\n Montreal began their season with a feel-good win over a rival, too. Montreal beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 at Scotiabank Arena. Montreal\u2019s depth scoring came through as Josh Anderson tied the game in the first period, Zachary Bolduc gave Montreal the lead in the second, and defenseman Alexandre Carrier scored the eventual winner in the third. <\/p>\n Goalie Jakub Dobes settled down after allowing an early William Nylander goal and made key saves on Kirill Marchenko and Nylander later in the game. <\/p>\n According to our colleague Marc Dumont at Montreal Hockey Now, Anderson, Bolduc, Kirby Dach, and Mike Matheson were Montreal\u2019s standouts. The Canadiens also employed a more aggressive penalty kill, which Dumont credited to new assistant coach Derek Lalonde\u2019s scheme. <\/p>\n Updated: Silovs will start Saturday.<\/p>\n Update 2: Center Blake Lizotte said he was available and wants to play. Friday, Muse said he would not be available, but Lizotte also participated in the morning skate. <\/p>\n How to Watch<\/p>\n TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh, TVA, Sportsnet<\/p>\n Radio: 105.9 The X<\/p>\n Penguins Lines<\/p>\n Nick Robertson-Sidney Crosby<\/a>-Rickard Rakell<\/p>\n Egor Chinkahov-Tommy Novak-Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n Ville Koivunen-Hendrix Lapierre-Filip Hallander<\/p>\n Connor Dewar-Ben Kindel-Andrei Kuzmenko<\/p>\n Defense<\/p>\n Declan Carlile-Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n Sam Girard-Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n Trevor van Riemsdyk-Kris Letang<\/p>\n Goalie: Arturs Silovs, expected<\/p>\n Canadiens Lines<\/p>\n Cole Caufield\u2013Nick Suzuki\u2013Chris Kreider<\/p>\n Juraj Slafkovsky\u2013Alex Newhook\u2013Ivan Demidov<\/p>\n Alexandre Texier\u2013Phillip Danault\u2013Kirby Dach<\/p>\n Zachary Bolduc\u2013Jake Evans\u2013Josh Anderson<\/p>\n Defense<\/p>\n Mike Matheson\u2013Noah Dobson<\/p>\n Lane Hutson\u2013Alexandre Carrier<\/p>\n Jayden Struble\u2013Arber Xhekaj<\/p>\n Goalie: Jakub Dobes, expected. <\/p>\n Special Teams<\/p>\n Penguins power play: 50%. Penguins penalty kill: 100%. <\/p>\n Canadiens power play: 0%. Canadiens penalty kill: 100%. <\/p>\n Penguins Game Notes<\/p>\n Three Penguins remain on injured reserve: Bryan Rust, Justin Brazeau, and Ben Kindel, but Kindel is expected to be activated before the game. <\/p>\n The Penguins have won seven of their last nine games against Montreal (7-2-0), dating back to Dec. 13, 2023. The Penguins have won four of the last five games against Montreal at PPG Paints Arena. <\/p>\n Andrei Kuzmenko will likely make his Penguins debut. He returned to the team Friday. <\/p>\n Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang earned their 494th career win Rickard Rakell has 20 points (9-11-20) in 22 career games against the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags:how to watch penguins game<\/a> penguins games<\/a> Penguins lines<\/a><\/p>\n Categorized:Penguins Pregame<\/a> Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a spectacular performance Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Penguins (1-0-0) make their home debut Saturday against the young but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6616,51776,5979,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-299524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-how-to-watch-penguins-game","tag-penguins-games","tag-penguins-lines","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
together on Wednesday in Philadelphia, passing San Jose\u2019s Joe Thornton, Joe
Pavelski and Marc-Edouard Vlasic (493) for the most regular-season wins by a
trio in NHL history.<\/p>\n
Canadiens, including 13 points (5-8-13) over his last nine games against them.<\/p>\n