The New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins begin a home-and-home that may not matter much to either team, really, though the Penguins are perhaps trying to hold off the Capitals from jumping into a different road playoff seed.
Evgeni Malkin misses both games as part of his four-game suspension. Casey Cizikas is back after a one-game suspension, the first extra discipline of his career.
Ilya Sorokin will be in net opposite Casey DeSmith. Might not be any other changes for the Isles:
Barry Trotz said he was going to make one lineup change tonight but the player he was going to put in came up sick this morning.