PensBurgh · Mar 8, 2023
CBJ Recap: Pens fire off five straight goals, win in OT
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Unusual lineup for Pittsburgh — Bryan Rust is unavailable (wife giving birth) and Mikael Granlund is sick, so the team was down to 10 forwards. They get an 11th up from Wilkes-Barre in the form of Alex Nylander, but do not have enough cap space to recall another player. So they go 11F/7D, with one of those forwards being Nylander in his Pittsburgh NHL debut.
Kulikov and Nylander make their Penguins debut tonight!
Granlund is out of the lineup tonight due to illness. Rust will not play due to personal reasons. pic.twitter.com/TKv9EkyEac
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) March 7, 2023 First period