Game 32- Toronto Maple Leafs @ Penguins

First, sorry for the lack of recapness on Thursday.

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The Maple Leafs will be in Pittsburgh tonight for a Hockey Night In Canada showdown with the Penguins. The Penguins have won two of their last three, and they just got back goalie Marc-Andre Fleury after the Flower was absent for over a month. The Leafs were lit up for eight goals Thursday night in Boston behind a putrid performance by netminders Vesa Toskala and Curtis Joseph. That's the Leafs' biggest weakness--goaltending.

If the Penguins come out fast and play Pens hockey in this one, they should score six goals minimally. But hey, they play the games for a reason, and the Pens better be ready to play.

Fleury vs. Toskala in goal, presumably.

It's Crosby and Malkin against Grabovski and Stajan...can anybody say "blockbuster"? This is a very close call--Which center tandem would you choose?

Pascal Dupuis has an injury and will not play, but Maxime Talbot is ready to return to the lineup one day after signing a contract extension that will keep him in the black and gold through the Consol Energy Center's inagural campaign.

Faceoff wizard Mike Zigomanis is still out.

Ryan Whitney was sent to Wilkes Barre on a conditioning assignment, and he'll be back against Tampa Bay/Pittsburgh South on the eve of Christmas Eve.

Niklas Hagman will possibly return from injury for Toronto, but that's not a certainty.

Penguins-

Taffe-Crosby-Satan
Fedoetenko-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Staal-Wallace
Stone-Talbot-Godard

Letang-Eaton
Orpik-Scuderi
Goligoski-Boucher

Fleury

Leafs-

Kulemin-Stajan-Antropov
Ponikarovksky-Grabovski-Stempniak
Blake-Moore-Williams
Hollweg-Mitchell-Deveaux

Kaberle-Kubina
Sifers-Finger
White-Van Ryn

Toskala

GO PENS!