Penguins Game Day 79 - vs. Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals

7:30 PM, Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh, PA

The Penguins lines per their website:

Forwards
Kunitz-Crosby-Dupuis
Ponikarovsky-Malkin-Guerin
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Adams-Talbot-Fedotenko

Defense
Gonchar-Eaton
Orpik-Letang
Leopold-Goligoski

Netminder
Fleury

Varlomov will start tonight for the Caps. What a joke. Isn't he supposed to be some kind of savior? Remember the last time the Pens played against him:



Like I said, joke.


This will be the fourth, and final, meeting between the Pens and the Caps this season with the Capitals winning all of the previous three contests.

The Penguins used a come from behind approach to record a point in a shootout loss to the Caps on March 24:



The Caps battled back from a big deficit and won 5-4 in OT on February 21



The Penguins dropped the first game of the series, at the Igloo, 6-3 on January 21:



Here are the comparisons:



Do it.