New Penguins defenseman Mark Streit will be facing his old team Friday night.
Don’t expect it to be an emotional affair.
Streit was a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning — the Penguins’ opponent Friday at PPG Paints Arena — for a few hours, at most, Wednesday afternoon. The Lightning acquired him from Philadelphia and promptly dealt him to the Penguins in a flurry of trade deadline action.
“It’s funny, isn’t it?” Streit said after the Penguins’ morning skate Friday. “A coincidence I guess. It was a crazy afternoon. I never really went through it in my career, so it was a new experience.