It’s a bare bones defense with Zach Trotman making his NHL season debut and Juuso Riikola back from the healthy scratch pile to replace the injured Brian Dumoulin and Kris Letang
The first period moves very quickly, both teams play several stretches between whistles, free-flowing game but not a ton of shots and no penalties. A lot of board battles, races up the ice, dis-possession, sloppy passes abound.
It’s the Penguins who get on the board first, Patric Hornqvist does a nice job entering the zone and makes a funky one-handed pass over to Sidney Crosby.