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<\/a>You know Saros would sign up for a repeat of Friday\u2019s game. The 17 shots he saw tied a season-low for a game this year. He\u2019s seen 35+ shots four times already.<\/p>\nBryan Rust – Sidney Crosby – Ben Kindel<\/p>\n
Tommy Novak – Evgeni Malkin – Anthony Mantha<\/p>\n
Ville Koivunen* – Kevin Hayes – Philip Tomasino<\/p>\n
Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Joona Koppanen<\/p>\n
Parker Wotherspoon \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Goalies: Sergei Murashov and Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Potential Scratches: Danton Heinen, Connor Clifton, Harrison Brunicke, Filip Larsson<\/p>\n
IR: Filip Hallander, Tristan Jarry, Justin Brazeau, Jack St. Ivany (lower body), Rickard Rakell (hand), Caleb Jones (lower body), Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
Rutger McGroarty scored<\/a> a goal in his season debut in the AHL last night. Every member of the third line had a 3-8% single digit expected goal percentage last game. That would be a good place to seek an upgrade.The most promising member of the line, Koivunen, left practice early yesterday with \u201cno update<\/a>\u201d. Heinen could easily slot in if needed there.Brunicke could be the next to the AHL, he\u2019s eligible for a 14-day conditioning stint after being a healthy scratch for a series of games. Today looks to be the fifth game in a row he will be scratched. That\u2019s a creative way to buy a little more time which could line up with Team Canada\u2019s World Junior camp. But sooner or later the Pens are going to have to play Brunicke in another game (which will be his 10th and trigger the start of his entry level contract) or send him back to junior to play games.The goalie choice will be an interesting one to track. Silovs has played three out of the four games since Tristan Jarry went on the IR, and done well too <\/a>(.929 save%, 1.94 GAA). Sergei Murashov, to date, has only been used in a back-to-back situation. Will we see Silovs get the opportunity to become the No. 1 goalie? Or will they rotate back to give Murashov a look?One other thing to point out: Murashov\u2019s last AHL game was on November 1st, then he got his one NHL game on November 9th. If he doesn\u2019t play today, he won\u2019t get another chance until the next game on November 21st. Suddenly the prized goalie prospect would be going a long time with few starts if he doesn\u2019t get the opportunity to be in net today.<\/p>\n Pens hoping to take energy from yesterday\u2019s open practice<\/p>\n The Pens had an open practice yesterday, hopefully the players can pick up on the energy and come out with a better performance in their second game in Sweden than it was in the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Nashville Predators (6-9-4, 16 points, 8th place Central Division) vs Pittsburgh Penguins (9-5-4, 22 points, 3rd place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[128082,385,99],"class_list":["post-295359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-game-preview","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}