Newly acquired Kasperi Kapanen is slotted to skate on the first line with Sidney Crosby and Jason Zucker, granted his immigration issues are cleared up. Last season, Kapanen played 69 games and tallied 36 points. He scored 13 goals and had 23 assists. Crosby played 41 games with 16 goals, 31 assists to tally 47 points. Zucker split the year playing with Minnesota and Pittsburgh. With the Wild he played 45 games with 14 goals and 15 assists to tally 29 points. With Pittsburgh played 15 games with six goals and six assists to tally 12 points. Pittsburgh’s goaltender Tristan Jarry had 33 wins with three shutouts. Jarry’s GAA was 2.43 and SV% was .921.
After a little digging I found a couple articles on the projected lines, only time will tell if these are accurate. For Pittsburgh it is Zuker-Crosby-Kapanen, Guentzel-Malkin-Rust, Tanev-McCann-Lafferty, Aston-Reese-Blueger-Sceviour. Projected defensive lines are to be Dumoulin-Letang, Pettersson-Marino, Matheson-Ruhwedel, and the Goaltender is projected to be Tristan Jarry. Pittsburgh’s top line points are as follows: Sidney Crosby 41 games played, 16 goals, 31 assists for 47 points, Jason Zucker (Wild) 45 games played, 14 goals, 15 assists for 29 points (Penguins) 15 games played, six goals, six assists for 12 points, Kasperi Kapanen 69 games played, 13 goals, 23 assists for 36 points.
Philadelphia’s projected lines are to be as follows: Lindblom-Couturier,-Konecny, Giroux-Hayes-Voracek, JvR-Patrick-Voracek, Raffl-Laughton-NAK. Projected defensive lines are as follows: Provorov-Braun, Sanheim-Myers, Hägg-Gustafsson. Philadelphia’s lines overall have better numbers than Pittsburgh. Claude Giroux played 69 games with 21 goals, 32 assists for 53 points. Jake Voracek played 69 games with 12 goals, 44 assists for 56 points. Sean Couturier played 69 games with 22 goals and 37 assists for 59 points. Moreover, Joel Farabee had four points on opening night (1g,3a). Goaltender Carter Hart has 23 wins with one shutout. His GAA was 2.42 and SV% was .914
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So again, who’s ready for the matchup???
Pens will win tonight the nhl found another way to keep the standings close by splitting back to backs it’s sad but this league has been since bettnan took over