Today at practice, the Penguins lines were basically the same as they have been for the past few games. Sidney Crosby skated between Jake Guentzel and Dominik Simon on the team’s top line, which has also been their recent top-performing line by far in terms of production.
Evgeni Malkin centered Tanner Pearson and Patric Hornqvist on the second line. And Derick Brassard was in between Phil Kessel and Zach Aston-Reese on a third line.
The Brassard/Kessel combination has been used in earnest for a few games, but the results are not encouraging so far.