Game 30- Penguins @ Philadelphia Flyers

I said I would stop half assing this blog due to my own other commitments, so here goes.

The Pens will evade the armpit of America at 1:00 on Saturday for a tilt with their inferior cross-state rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. In two games between the teams this year, the Pens, not shockingly, have won both. The Flyers have been without mediocre defensemen Randy Jones and Ryan Parent all year, while the Pens have dealt with injuries to a star in Sergei Gonchar and a # 2 in Ryan Whitney.

Due to a list of injuries that includes faceoff artist Mike Zigomanis, Tyler Kennedy, Hal Gill, and now Maxime Talbot, the Penguins will be dressing a few minor leaguers for this one in Jeff Taffe, Tim Wallace, and possibly the newly recalled Connor James. One of James and Wallace is likely to sit this one out.

Since this came could be physically brutal, we will probably see the return of Eric Godard from the press box in this game.

The big news coming into this one is obvious---Marc-Andre Fleury is coming back. After a speculated groin injury has kept him out for about a month, the Flower is in full bloom and ready to wreak Hell on Jeff Carter and the Flyers' snipers.

No one knows if MAF is starting or not, but he'll be active at the least.

I'll put the over/under at 6:00 for Scott Hartnell's PIM in this game.

Penguins-

Dupuis-Crosby-Satan
Fedotenko-Malkin-Sykora
Talbot-Staal-Cooke
Taffe-Wallace-Godard

Orpik-Scuderi
Letang-Eaton
Boucher-Goligoski

Sabourin

Flyers-

Gagne-Richards-Knuble
Hartnell-Carter-Lupul
Upshall (Diving Bitch)-Metropolit-Lupul
Cote-Powe-Asham

Timonen-Vaananen
Coburn-Kukkonen
Sbisa-Alberts

Biron

GO PENS!