Projected Lineups for the Penguins vs Canucks – 10/26/24 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The Pittsburgh Penguins take on the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

PENGUINS (3-5-1) at CANUCKS (3-1-2)

10 p.m. ET; CBC, SN, CITY, SN-PIT

Penguins projected lineup

Drew O’Connor — Sidney Crosby — Bryan Rust
Michael Bunting — Evgeni Malkin — Rickard Rakell
Anthony Beauvillier — Lars Eller — Valtteri Puustinen
Kevin Hayes — Noel Acciari — Jesse Puljujarvi

Marcus Pettersson — Kris Letang
Matt Grzelcyk — Erik Karlsson
Ryan Graves — Jack St. Ivany

Alex Nedeljkovic
Joel Blomqvist

Scratched: Ryan Shea

Injured: Cody Glass (illness)

Status report

The Penguins did not hold a morning skate Saturday after Blomqvist made 46 saves in a 4-0 loss at the Edmonton Oilers on Friday.
Goalie Tristan Jarry was assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on a conditioning loan Saturday.
Glass, a forward, left the game at Edmonton after two periods because of illness, but there was no update after the game and Puustinen, who has played one game this season, is the only extra Pittsburgh forward.

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Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk — J.T. Miller — Brock Boeser
Nils Hoglander — Elias Pettersson — Conor Garland
Danton Heinen — Teddy Blueger — Kiefer Sherwood
Arshdeep Bains — Pius Suter — Daniel Sprong

Quinn Hughes — Filip Hronek
Carson Soucy — Tyler Myers
Erik Brannstrom — Vincent Desharnais

Kevin Lankinen
Arturs Silovs

Scratched: Noah Juulsen, Nils Aman, Derek Forbort

Injured: Thatcher Demko (lower body), Dakota Joshua (testicular cancer recovery)

Status report

Forbort, a defenseman, is away from the Canucks for a fourth straight game for personal reasons but coach Rick Tocchet said he was expected to rejoin the team later Saturday.

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