Game 57- Penguins @ Toronto Maple Leafs

The Pens will get some much needed boost tonight at the Air Canada Centre when Sergei Gonchar and Ruslan Fedotenko return to the lineup after long time periods spent on injured reserve. Gonchar was injured in September in the Pens' first preseason game against Tampa Bay, and Fedotenko broke his hand in a game against Atlanta while knocking out Colby Armstrong over a month ago. Gonchar brings some much needed stability, and the Norris candidate will, in time, give some much needed help to an abysmal powerplay. Fedotenko is one of just two top six wingers on the team, and that helps so much as well.

With wins by Florida and Buffalo last night, the Pens are five points out of the playoffs, in desperate need of a win tonight to keep pace.

The Leafs are bad, but they are 2-1 against Pittsburgh this season.

Mike Zigomanis is out for the Pens, and the Leafs are missing Tomas Kaberle and Mike Van Ryn.

Penguins-

Kennedy-Crosby-Dupuis
Cooke-Malkin-Sykora
Thomas-Staal-Satan
Fedotenko-Talbot-Godard

Gonchar-Scuderi
Orpik-Whitney
Letang-Eaton

Maple Leafs-

Hagman-Stajan-Stempniak
Kulemin-Grabovski-Antropov
Blake-Moore-Mayers
May-Mitchell-Hollweg

Kubina-Schenn
White-Finger
Stralman-Frogren

Toskala

GO PENS!