In the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first practice since a grueling five-game cross-country road trip, their defensive pairs looked a little different Friday at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex.
While the top pair of Parker Wotherspoon and Erik Karlsson remained intact, Sam Girard skated with Kris Letang, and Ryan Shea skated with Connor Clifton. That left Ilya Solovyov and Ryan Graves on a spare pairing.
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Girard has missed the past five games because of injury but appeared to be a full go Friday. Graves just returned from a conditioning assignment in the AHL.
Injured defenseman Jack St. Ivany, who is on IR, also was at practice.
Before practice, forward Filip Hallander (blood clot) skated.
The forward lines remained the same:
Rickard Rakell-Sidney Crosby-Bryan Rust
Egor Chinakhov-Tommy Novak-Evgeni Malkin
Anthony Mantha-Ben Kindel Justin Brazeau
Egor Soderblom-Connor Dewar-Noel Acciari
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