{"id":554211,"date":"2026-04-17T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554211\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:03:16","slug":"penguins-practice-4th-line-good-news-muse-makes-big-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554211\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Practice: 4th Line Good News, Muse Makes ‘Big’ Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRANBERRY Twp., Pa. \u2014 With their first Stanley Cup Playoff game just days away, albeit yet unannounced, the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>\u2018 full lineup got a couple of boosts at the team\u2019s first postseason practice Thursday at the UPMC Lemieux Complex.<\/p>\n

Blake Lizotte<\/a>, who has been out for more than four weeks, and Connor Dewar, who has missed the last two weeks, were visibly full participants at practice, reuniting the Penguins team-defining fourth line with Noel Acciari. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Hockey Now will update the story after practice when coach Dan Muse <\/a>or the players provide official word on their status. <\/p>\n

Muse also made one big change to the Penguins\u2019 lines. Becoming the odd-man out was 6-foot-6, 227-poud Justin Brazeau, and in the lineup was 6-foot-8, 246-pound Elmer Soderblom.<\/p>\n

Brazeau is pointless in his last seven games. <\/p>\n

Soderblom, 24, has four goals with eight points in his last 10 games, and his increasingly become a physical presence. He scored a goal in the Penguins\u2019 7-5 loss to the St. Louis Blues Tuesday by using his size to go through a pair of defensemen, then stickhandled around goalie Jordan Binnington. <\/p>\n

Those sorts of plays by Soderblom have increased, just as has his physical play. <\/p>\n

Penguins Lines<\/p>\n

Egor Chinakhov-Sidney Crosby-Bryan Rust<\/p>\n

Tommy Novak-Rickard Rakell-Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n

Elmer Soderblom-Ben Kindel-Anthony Mantha<\/p>\n

Connor Dewar-Blake Lizotte-Noel Acciari<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Parker Wotherspoon-Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n

Sam Girard-Kris Letang<\/p>\n

Ryan Shea-Connor Clifton<\/p>\n

Extras: Ryan Graves-Jack St. Ivany<\/p>\n

Ilya Solovyov and Jake Livanavage did not take part in practice with the main group. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: blake lizotte<\/a> Connor Dewar<\/a> elmer soderblom<\/a> Penguins lines<\/a> Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <\/p>\n

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