The Penguins bring out a lot of their big guns and mix in a bunch of players making preseason debuts in Bill Zonnon, Tomas Galvas with Markus and Liam Ruck getting in the lineup too.<\/p>\n
Visiting Detroit brings a slightly better lineup tonight than Buffalo did last night, though it\u2019s very much an early preseason road game type of roster.<\/p>\n
Egor Chinakhov went to the penalty box for tripping, the Pens not only kill it off they get a goal. Nick Robertson scores on his first shot in a Pittsburgh jersey, bursting around forward Theo Rochette, driving to the net and lifting it past John Gibson. 1-0 Pens early.<\/p>\n
Robertson gets tripped and draws a power play. Crosby, Malkin, Chinakhov, Rakell are out there, Sam Girard fills in for Erik Karlsson (not playing).<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t score, the following shift the Red Wings do. Arturs Silovs makes a great save but the Pens\u2019 defensive structure is broken down. Detroit regroups and passes it around and tie the game.<\/p>\n
Shots were 12-8 PIT after one.<\/p>\n
Crosby and Marco Kasper get tied up and slash each other enough to both take penalties. While at 4v4 the Red Wings score twice. First, Arturs Silovs coughs up a bad rebound that Mason Appleton bulls through Tomas Galvas to knock into the net. 2-1 Red Wings. They add another on a broken play, Malkin only got a piece of a centering pass, throwing off the timing for a Red Wing to quickly hammer home.<\/p>\n
The Pens\u2019 first line turns up the heat with a long shift of pressure. Ilya Solovyov and Sam Girard are all over the puck too. Eventually Girard sends the puck down to the net for Rickard Rakell, the Swede spins and shoots it in to narrow Detroit\u2019s lead to 3-2.<\/p>\n
Shots through two are 24-14 PIT.<\/p>\n
Trey Augustine is in net for Detroit, Silovs remains in there for the Pens.<\/p>\n
Rakell gets taken down and Pittsburgh gets their third power play of the night, which comes up empty for the third time.<\/p>\n
More tempers flare, Carlile grabs a guy and drops the gloves and ends up with a double minor and 10 minute misconduct. Detroit scores on one of their power plays after Silovs leaves a rebound and Girard can\u2019t clear it away. 4-2 game.<\/p>\n
Kaeden Korczak gets on the board in his Pittsburgh debut, wristing in a long shot from the right side. 4-3.<\/p>\n
Detroit re-establishes their two goal lead with a deflection goal. 5-3 with over 10 minutes to go.<\/p>\n
More bad news, another huuuge rebound that\u2019s kicked out and Chinakhov isn\u2019t quick enough to get to it. 6-3.<\/p>\n
The damage keeps coming, off an offensive zone faceoff for the Red Wings, they get a point shot through that hits Girard and flutters into the net. 7-3.<\/p>\n
The Pens get one before time runs out. Pretty passing between the Rucks and Rutger McGroarty leads to an open net for the latter to score on. 7-4.<\/p>\n