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Pittsburgh Penguins (32-17-15, 79 pts) at Vegas Golden Knights (29-22-14, 72 pts)

Venue: T-Mobile Arena
Date: Thursday, March 12
Time: 10:00 pm EST
How To Watch: ESPN+/SN-PIT/SCRIPPS
Radio: WEPN-AM 880/Fox Sports Las Vegas 94.7

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Pittsburgh Penguins & Notes:

The Penguins suffered a 5-4 shootout loss to the Hurricanes on Tuesday. They’re on a three-game point streak, averaging four goals per game while allowing 4.3 goals per game.

Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:

The Golden Knights dropped their third straight on Tuesday with a 2-1 loss to the Stars on Tuesday. They’re 1-5-0 in March, averaging 1.8 goals per game while allowing 3.5 goals per game.

Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines

Chinakhov-Rakell-Rust
Mantha-Novak-Koivunen
Soderblom-Kindel-A.Hayes
Dewar-Lizotte-Acciari

Wotherspoon-Karlsson
Shea-Letang
Solovyov-Clifton

Skinner
Silovs

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Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines

Barbashev-Eichel-Bowman
Howden-Marner-Dorofeyev
R.Smith-Hertl-Sissons
C.Smith-Dowd-Kolesar

McNabb-Theodore
Hanifin-Andersson
Lauzon-Korczak

Hill
Schmid

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Players To Watch:

Pittsburgh Penguins

Ben Kindel had a goal and an assist as the Penguins won over Vegas 11 days ago.

Vegas Golden Knights

Pavel Dorofeyev had three shots in the Golden Knights’ shutout loss to the Penguins back on March 1st.

Injury Report:

Pittsburgh Penguins

C Filip Hallander – IR
G Joel Blomqvist – IR
F Sidney Crosby – IR
D Jack St. Ivany – IR
D Ryan Graves – IR
F Evgeni Malkin – Out
F Justin Brazeau – Out
D Samuel Girard – DTD

Vegas Golden Knights

G Carter Hart – IR
F William Karlsson – IR
F Mark Stone – IR
F Alexander Holtz – DTD

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