First of two meetings between these two teams this season.
Casey DeSmith and Connor Hellebuyck will be the starting goalies.
Patrik Laine is one goal away from 100 in his young career.
Pittsburgh has 445 bridges, more than any other city in the world (including Venice).
As they say in hockey…let’s do that hockey!
Winnipeg Jets Lineup:
FORWARDS:
27 Nikolaj Ehlers/ 55 Mark Scheifele/ 26 Blake Wheeler
81 Kyle Connor/ 18 Bryan Little/ 29 Patrik Laine
85 Mathieu Perreault/ 17 Adam Lowry/ 13 Brandon Tanev
19 Nic Petan/ 28 Jack Roslovic/ 48 Brendan Lemieux
DEFENCE
44 Josh Morrissey/ 8 Jacob Trouba
7 Ben Chiarot/ 33 Dustin Byfuglien
70 Joe Morrow/ 57 Tyler Myers
STARTING GOALIE
37 Connor Hellebuyck
Riding the pine: 30 Laurent Brossoit
Scratched: 83 Sami Niku, 82 Mason Appleton
Injured: 5 Dmitry Kulikov (ETA December 10th, lower body injury), 9 Andrew Copp (ETA unknown, concussion)
Pittsburgh Penguins Lineup:
FORWARDS
59 Jake Guentzel/ 87 Sidney Crosby/ 17 Bryan Rust
14 Tanner Pearson/ 71 Evgeni Malkin/ 81 Phil Kessel
46 Zach Aston-Reese/ 19 Derick Brassard/ 41 Daniel Sprong
12 Dominik Simon/ 15 Riley Sheahan/ 38 Derek Grant
DEFENCE
8 Brian Dumoulin/ 58 Kris Letang
73 Jack Johnson/ 6 Jamie Oleksiak
3 Olli Maatta/ 50 Juuso Riikola
STARTING GOALIE
1 Casey DeSmith
Riding the pine: 35 Tristan Jarry
Scratched: 2 Chad Ruhwedel, 10 Garrett Wilson
Injured: 30 Matt Murray (lower body), 72 Patric Hornqvist (concussion), 7 Matt Cullen (lower body), 4 Justin Schultz (leg surgery)
