Montreal Canadiens
7:00 p.m., CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coming of the huge win last night at MSG the Penguins are going to have to get their minds right when they come back to the CONSOL to take on a struggling Montreal team. I guess struggling would be an understatement for Montreal. They are better than only two other teams in the East (point wise) and nothing has gone right. Do I feel bad? Hell no.
The Penguins are playing some good hockey but this is the second night of back-to-back games so hopefully the CONSOL crowd gives them a little something to put pep in the step. This will be Kris Letang's second game back since getting smashed in the teams last meetup. That meetup was a Penguins win where Letang came back for overtime and beat Carey Price. Maybe that is why Price isn't in goal (I know that's not why).
This is also the middle game in a series where the Penguins play three games in four days
The season series (Penguins lead 2-0):
October 20, 2011 - Penguins 3, Canadiens 1
November 26, 2011 - Penguins 4, Canadiens 3 (OT)
The Penguins probables (via Seth at Empty Netters):
Forwards
Chris Kunitz - Evgeni Malkin - James Neal
Pascal Dupuis - Dustin Jeffrey - Tyler Kennedy
Matt Cooke - Richard Park - Steve Sullivan
Eric Tangradi - Joe Vitale - Craig Adams
Defense
Kris Letang - Brooks Orpik
Zbynek Michalek - Paul Martin
Deryk Engelland - Matt Niskanen
Goaltender
Marc Andre Fleury
The Canadiens probables:
Forwards
Rene Bourque - Tomas Plekanec - Mike Blunden
Travis Moen - Lars Eller - Andrei Kostitsyn
Erik Cole - David Desharnais - Max Pacioretty
Mathieu Darche - Scott Gomez
Defense
Josh Gorges - PK Subban
Hall Gill - Yannick Weber
Alexei Emelin - Raphael Diaz
Tomas Kaberle
Goaltender
Peter Budaj
The stats:
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