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Role reversal for today's Penguins and Blue Jackets game

September 21, 2019, 11:14 AM ET [160 Comments]
Ryan Wilson
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Columbus and Pittsburgh face one another again today at 2PM and it will be quite different than the last game the Penguins won 4-1. In that contest the Penguins came strong with their lineup, as far as preaseason is concerned. They had Evgeni Malkin with Alexander Galchenyuk and Brandon Tanev with Dominik Simon centering Jake Guentzel and Dominik Kahun. Today’s roster is rather feeble compared to the one from the other night.




Forwards:
19 - McCann
20 - Bjorkqvist
24 - Kahun
26 - Agozzino
27 - Bjugstad
36 - Blandisi
37 - Lafferty
45 - Lucchini
46 - Aston-Reese
53 - Blueger
54 - Di Pauli
57 - Angello

Defensemen:
2 - Ruhwedel
6 - Marino
7 - Czuczman
44 - Gudbranson
50 - Riikola
55 - Warsofsky

Goaltenders:
1 - DeSmith
60 - Larmi

There’s nothing about this roster I’m particularly interested in. Maybe Dominik Kahun being more noticeable, but we still haven’t seen him alongside Crosby or Malkin and we won’t today. Some are interested in John Marino, but he is destined for the AHL as there is no room for him on the big club. People tend to get overexcited with different names and faces this time of year. Nate Legare will probably turn out to be an example of this. The two goals were great the other night. It would have been nice for him to play today against what looks to be a much better Columbus lineup. I'd want to learn as much as I can about Legare during this unique time of year and today would have been a good opportunity to continue that process. Columbus is playing some of their better forwards including Cam Atkinson, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Boone Jenner, Nick Foligno, and Josh Anderson.





FORWARDS
11 - Kevin Stenlund
13 - Cam Atkinson
18 - Pierre-Luc Dubois
24 - Nathan Gerbe
38 - Boone Jenner
42 - Alexandre Texier
50 - Eric Robinson
64 - Trey Fix-Wolansky
67 - Justin Scott
71 - Nick Foligno
77 - Josh Anderson
88 - Kole Sherwood

DEFENSEMEN
2 - Andrew Peeke
4 - Scott Harrington
27 - Ryan Murray
53 - Gabriel Carlsson
58 - David Savard
65 - Markus Nutivaara

GOALTENDERS
70 - Joonas Korpisalo
80 - Matiss Kivlenieks


When Legare does eventually get sent back to juniors at least he’ll be about 10k richer




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