It's a Hockey Night in Pittsburgh: Preseason Game 1

7:00 PM

The first official hockey game at the Consol Energy Center. Gates open at 5:30pm and the puck drops at 7:00pm.

Here's the lineup that Coach Disco is going with:

Pascal Dupuis-Sidney Crosby-Brett Sterling
Eric Tangradi-Mike Comrie-Evgeni Malkin
Tim Wallace-Mark Letestu-Tyler Kennedy
Ryan Craig-Joe Vitale-Jesse Boulerice

Zbynek Michalek-Brooks Orpik
Kris Letang-Brian Strait
Corey Potter-Andrew Hutchinson

Fleury
Thiessen

The first powerplay unit will consist of Tangradi-Crosby-Comrie, with Malkin and Letang on the points.

-Sterling gets a a chance to prove his worth playing alongside Crosby and Dupuis tonight and the Malkin line will see if its meant to be. Additionally, Kennedy and Letestu will be playing together on the third line, so we'll get to see if either looks good tonight.


Here's the redwings roster for the game:
Detroit's lineup for the night

8 Justin Abdelkader
11 Dan Cleary
17 Patrick Eaves
18 Kirk Maltby
20 Drew Miller
26 Jiri Hudler
32 Aaron Downey
42 Mattias Ritola
43 Darren Helm
44 Todd Bertuzzi
51 Valtteri Filppula
90 Mike Modano
93 Johan Franzen

Defensemen
2 Brendan Smith
4 Jakub Kindl
14 Derek Meech
23 Brad Stuart
24 Ruslan Salei
25 Brian Lashoff
37 Doug Janik
52 Jonathan Ericsson

There is no video stream of the game, but there will be an audio stream at http://penguins.nhl.com/v2/ext/hd/hdRadioPlayer.html