Pittsburgh has announced the lineup they are bringing up to Buffalo tomorrow. As usual for a road pre-season game, there are not a lot of A-list names — though Tristan Jarry will make the trip for a second taste of action this pre-season.
One interesting item that stands out is that all four of the defensemen on the fringes of the regular season roster — Ty Smith, Pierre-Olivier Joseph, Chad Ruhwedel and Mark Friedman — find themselves in the lineup tomorrow against the Sabres.
Up front, Kasperi Kapanen will make his pre-season debut, after getting past an illness earlier in the week that kept him out of the last game.