Penguins at Golden Knights projected lineups

PENGUINS (32-17-15) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (29-22-14)

10 pm ET; SN-PIT, SCRIPPS, SNE, TVAS

Penguins projected lineup

Egor Chinakhov — Rickard Rakell — Bryan Rust

Anthony Mantha — Tommy Novak — Ville Koivunen

Elmer Soderblom — Ben Kindel — Avery Hayes

Connor Dewar — Blake Lizotte — Noel Acciari

Parker Wotherspoon — Erik Karlsson

Connor Clifton — Ilya Solovyov

Ryan Shea — Kris Letang

Arturs Silovs

Stuart Skinner

Scratched: Ryan Graves, Kevin Hayes

Injured: Sidney Crosby (decrease physique), Jack St. Ivany (hand surgical procedure), Caleb Jones
(decrease physique), Samuel Girard (higher physique), Justin Brazeau (higher physique)

Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone

Pavel Dorofeyev–Tomas Hertl–Mitch Marner

Brett Howden — Colton Sissons — Braeden Bowman

Cole Smith — Nic Dowd — Keegan Kolesar

Brayden McNabb — Shea Theodore

Noah Hanifin — Rasmus Andersson

Jeremy Lauzon — Kaedan Korczak

Adin Hill

Akira Schmidt

Scratched: Ben Hutton, Brandon Saad, Reilly Smith

Injured: Carter Hart (decrease physique), William Karlsson (decrease physique), Jonas Rondbjerg (decrease physique)

Status report

The Penguins will gown the identical 18 skaters they utilized in a 5-4 shootout loss at the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday. … Stone, who has missed 5 video games, might be a game-time choice; he wore a noncontact jersey through the Golden Knights morning skate, took line rushes on the primary line and labored on the ability play. …If Stone would not play, both Saad or Smith, every a ahead, will. … Hanifin and Lauzon will swap protection companions.