Malone, Lightning visit Mellon Arena

The Penguins tonight play host to the Tampa Bay Lightning and former their former Pittsburgh power forward, Ryan Malone. Malone, who has six goals on the season, lines up with Steve Stamkos and Marty St. Louis on one of the most balanced, well-constructed lines in the NHL.

Marc-Andre Fleury will be in goal for the Penguins. Fleury is 6-0 on the season, having been in net for two home wins early on against the Rangers and Islanders and then each game on the Penguins' recent 4-0 road swing that took them all over the continent.

Antero Nittymaki, familiar with the Penguins from his time in Philadelphia, will get the nod from Rick Tocchet in the nets for Tampa Bay. Nittymaki has historically been roasted by the Pens, particularly captain Sidney Crosby, who has been held pointless in his last two games and could use a stat-padding evening.

This is still a potential trap game with the Penguins returning home from a long road trip, sitting pretty at 6-1, and facing a Lightning squad that got shell shocked a few days ago by the Ottawa Senators, 7-1.

Penguins-

Chris Kunitz-Sidney Crosby-Bill Guerin
Ruslan Fedotenko-Evgeni Malkin-Pascal Dupuis
Matt Cooke-Jordan Staal-Tyler Kennedy
Mike Rupp-Craig Adams-Eric Godard

Brooks Orpik-Sergei Gonchar
Mark Eaton-Kris Letang
Alex Goligoski-Jay McKee

Marc-Andre Fleury

Lightning-

Ryan Malone-Steven Stamkos-Martin St. Louis
Alex Tanguay- Vincent Lecavalier-Steve Downie
James Wright-Jeff Halpern-Drew Miller
Todd Fedoruk-Zenon Konopka-Stephane Veilleux

Matthias Ohlund-Victor Hedman
Andrej Meszaros-Kurtis Foster
Paul Ranger-Matt Walker

Antero Nittymaki

Go Pens.