Game 38- Penguins @ Boston Bruins

The Penguins will visit TD Banknorth Gardens in Boston tonight for the back end of a home and home with the Bruins. The B's spanked the Pens in the first meeting, but the Penguins are hungry to break out of a recent slump.

Phil Kessel, Marc Savard, Milan Lucic, Dave Krejci, Mike Ryder, and Blake Wheeler make up the Boston top six, and that group has been, well, deadly, all year long. The emergence of Kessel as one of the NHL's premier goal scorers, and that of Wheeler as a fine top six left wing, have been big factors to this point.

The Pens will be getting back Hal Gill from injury, and that's a huge relief, but there are other players who aren't quite ready to return. Sergei Gonchar, Tyler Kennedy, and Mike Zigomanis are out.

Dany Sabourin gets the start in goal against Thomas.

Kris Letang is finally ready to return from an ankle injury.

For Boston, Patrice Bergeron, Petteri Nokelainen, Marco Sturm, and Andrew Ference are out.

The game's lines are subject to change.

So, who sees what I just did there?

Penguins-

Dupuis-Crosby-Satan
Fedotenko-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Staal-Talbot
Wallace-Jeffrey-Goligoski

Orpik-Scuderi
Letang-Whitney
Gill-Boucher
Goligoski

Sabourin

Bruins-

Axelsson-Savard-Kessel
Wheeler-Krejci-Ryder
Lucic-Yelle-Kobasew
Sobotka-St. Pierre-Thornton

Wideman-Chara
Stuart-Lashoff
Hunwick-Ward

Thomas

GO PENS!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!