Game 12- Penguins @ St. Louis Blues

The Penguins will close out their tumultuous four game road trip tonight with a match against the St. Louis Blues at the Scottrade Center in Missouri. Forward Pascal Dupuis was put on injured reserve today, and in turn, Finnish wonder Janne Pesonen has been called up to make his NHL debut. Sidney Crosby, who was hurt in the Phoenix game, participated in the morning skate and appears likely to play tonight. Marc-Andre Fleury will be in goal against Chris Mason.

For St. Louis, Brad Boyes has gotten off to a hot start after a 43 goal campaign last year, and veterans Paul Kariya and Kieith Tkachuk have refound themselves, and are among the league leaders in scoring. Also, watch out for sniper Lee Stempniak. He is a forward who plays alongside Kariya on the point for the Blues powerplay, a unit that has gone from worst to first, and is now the best man advantage unit in hockey. They were the worst unit last year.

Now, Ruslan Fedotenko has been ruled out of the game with an undisclosed injury, and Pascal Dupuis has been placed on injured reserve. That will obviously change the line combinations significantly.

Projected Lines-

Talbot-Crosby-Satan
Pesonen-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Bissonnette-Zigomanis-Godard

Orpik-Scuderi
Letang-Eaton
Goligoski-Gill

Fleury

GO PENS!