The Penguins are rolling with these players for Wednesday night’s game against Columbus.

FORWARDS

8 – Aidan McDonough
10 – Aaron Huglen
11 – Filip Hallander
16 – Justin Brazeau
19 – Connor Dewar
23 – Nolan Renwick
26 – Tristan Broz
41 – Ville Koivunen
46 – Blake Lizotte
53 – Philip Tomasino
62 – Zach Gallant
81 – Ben Kindel
84 – Atley Calvert

Advertisement

DEFENSE

3 – Jack St. Ivany
25 – Sebastian Aho
52 – Philip Kemp
56 – Alexander Alexeyev
75 – Connor Clifton
77 – Quinn Beauchesne
82 – Caleb Jones

GOALIES

31 – Filip Larsson
37 – Arturs Silovs

Ben Kindel looks to get another game in before being assigned back to juniors for the season likely some time in the not-too-distant future, might as well get the most of the time he has here. Tristan Broz is back with the game roster too after scoring on the power play (and shootout) in Monday night’s game as his long look continues. Connor Clifton is the other common name from the first game, likely to fill in for veteran minimums.

Advertisement

If there’s an interesting name to watch, and if you want the more obscure the better, then keep an eye out for No. 8 Aidan McDonough. McDonough, signed to an AHL contract, was skating with Sidney Crosby today at practice. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything beyond the surface level but it is interesting enough any time anyone of that level plays with Crosby. (And McDonough, 25, did score 16 points in 16 AHL games last season with Charlotte).

Some other practice duos that might be kept together include Justin Brazeau and Philip Tomasino, Ville Koivunen and Filip Hallander have also skated together as a basis for groups that could be kept together (or completely flipped apart).

The players who aren’t playing the game will have a scrimmage tomorrow morning. From the team:

Below is the Penguins roster for their non-game group scrimmage which will be held tomorrow, Sept. 24 at 9:30 AM at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. Tomorrow’s scrimmage is free and open to the public.

TEAM 1

Forwards – Sidney Crosby, Brayden Edwards, Robby Fabbri, Max Graham, Avery Hayes, Boko Imama, Gabe Klassen, Sam Poulin, Valtteri Puustinen, Bryan Rust

Defensemen – David Breazeale, Harrison Brunicke, Tommy Budnick, Matt Dumba, Finn Harding, Jake Livingstone, Owen Pickering, Ryan Shea

Goalies – Tristan Jarry, Maxim Pavlenko

TEAM 2

Forwards – Raivis Ansons, Cal Burke, Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Danton Heinen, Jordan Kaplan, Evgeni Malkin, Anthony Mantha, Brett Murray, Tommy Novak, Rickard Rakell, Zach Urdahl

Defensemen – Ryan Graves, Erik Karlsson, Daniel Laatsch, Kris Letang, Emil Pieniniemi, Chase Pietila, Parker Wotherspoon

Goalies – Joel Blomqvist, Sergei Murashov

Not listed in the scrimmage is forward Joona Koppanen, who picked up a lower body injury in last night’s game against Montreal.