Friday, January 2, 2009

Game 39- Florida Panthers @ Penguins

The Penguins will try to break out of their recent funk Saturday when the dismal Florida Panthers come to town. The Panthers, like the Pens, have been playing pretty poorly of late. It's a home game against a week opponent, so this is a great chance to finally stop losing.

Tyler Kennedy will finally return after missing a month with a knee injury, and Eric Godard will be back after missing three games with a lower body injury suffered when he blocked a slapshot in New Jersey last week. Sergei Gonchar, Mike Zigomanis, and Phillipe Boucher are still out.

For Florida, Bryan Allen, Kamil Kreps, and Rostislav Olesz will not play.

Marc-Andre Fleury will be in goal for the Penguins, likely against Craig Anderson for the Cats.

David Booth, Nathan Horton, Mike Frolik, and Steve Weiss lead Florida offensively, and Jay Bouwmeester is a world-class blueliner.

The game's lines are subject to change.

Penguins-
Dupuis-Crosby-Sykora
Fedotenko-Malkin-Satan
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Wallace-Jeffrey-Godard

Orpik-Scuderi
Letang-Whitney
Goligoski-Gill

Fleury

Panthers-
Booth-Weiss-Horton
Stillman-Frolik-Zednik
Peltonen-Campbell-Dvorak
Stewart-McLean-Tarnasky

Bouwmeester-Skrastins
Ballard-Boynton
McCabe-Cullimore

Anderson

GO PENS!

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