Game 8- Carolina Hurricanes @ Penguins

The Pittsburgh Penguins will face the Carolina Hurricanes tomorrow night at 7:38 P.M. at Mellon Arena. This will be the first meeting of the year between the two teams, and it will mark the ninth time that Penguins forward Jordan Staal will play against his brother, the very talented Eric Staal.

Jordan has been, well, ghastly by all accounts. He has been slow. He has not played with heart. He refuses to shoot anything other than alcoholic beverages, and he has missed several yawning empty nets. He has no goals, and just two assists. This while playing on a line with Evgeni Malkin, mind you. Eric, on the other hand, has been great as usual. He has three goals and two assists for five points in his first five games, continuing to establish himself as one of the best goal scorers in the NHL.

Either way, it looks to be a good game. It will be Marc-Andre Fleury against Cam Ward in goal. Matt Cooke will return for the Penguins after missing the last few games with an injury. My personal expectation is that we'll see Tyler Kennedy on the left wing with Staal and Petr Sykora. Hal Gill, though, will not play with an undisclosed injury, which really sucks. He's been playing fantastic hockey lately.

I'll be at the game, so the recap will not come until late.

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GO PENS!