Bryan Rust comes off the IR and bumps Ville Koivunen all the way to the AHL. Otherwise the rest of the Penguins are the same as last game, except Arturs Silovs gets back in the net.

The Rangers are missing Vincent Trocheck, who went down with an injury on Thursday night, so their lines look different from Tuesday night in the opener between these two teams.

The Penguins give a very nice welcome back video to Mike Sullivan at the first commercial break.

Pittsburgh gets the power play, but the Rangers get the goal. Adam Fox helps them break out and Sam Carrick makes a really nice pass right through Erik Karlsson that leads to a relatively easy finish for Mika Zibanejad. 1-0 NYR.

Shots in the first end up 9-4 PIT. One flub puts the Rangers on the board but it wasn’t a bad period in totality for the home team.

Pittsburgh gets on the board with Ben Kindel’s first career goal. Kindel jolts up the ice on a rush and fires a super-hard shot short-side on Igor Shesterkin.

Matt Rempe should have scored from in front, but alas, scoring from in front of the net isn’t where Rampe excels. The Rangers were able to work the puck around with the Pens scrambling a little and Fox found his mark. 2-1 NYR.

The Rangers score on their first power play of the night. Former Penguin Conor Sheary makes a nice play to bank a puck in off Will Cuylle right in the crease. 3-1 NYR.

The nightmare period for the Pens continued, they got caught with not just six players on the ice but none even trying to change or get off the surface. Can’t do that. The Rangers won the initial faceoff and Fox continued his great game by floating a puck all the way in. 4-1 NYR.

Shots in the second go 14-3 Rangers. Easily the worst period of the young season for Pittsburgh, and one that has tipped this game heavily towards New York.

The bleeding doesn’t stop for the Pens when Ryan Shea knocks Rempe down and takes out Silovs in the process. Goal ends up getting credited to Rempe, 5-1 New York.

Taylor Raddish beat Caleb Jones to the far post and another one goes in. 6-1 Rangers.

Luckily that’s all the action.

The Pens don’t have a good night tonight, but they do win two of their first three and now get to shift gears in major way. They go out to California for three games next week, starting Tuesday night in Anaheim for the first game on the trip. Time to flip the page and move on.