The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Florida Panthers tonight at PPG Paints Arena. Face-off is 7pm. Pre-game on WISR 680am will be 6:30pm. The Pens begin the night tied with Montreal with 77 points and currently hold the seventh place out of eight Eastern Conference playoff spots. The Pens trail Carolina by one point.
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was named the NHL’s Third Star of the week for the second time in the past three weeks. Crosby tied for the NHL lead with 11 points in three games last week. He has six goals and 22 points over his last 22 games. Evgeni Malkin has seven goals in his past eight games, and is within four points of reaching 1,000 in his career.
The Pens will honor forward Matt Cullen prior to tonight’s game, his 1,500th of his career.