Surprise bad news for the Penguins, Evgeni Malkin doesn’t take the ice for warmups and is out for his first game since April of 2022. Jesse Puljujarvi is in for his first game in a month. Tristan Jarry in net.
Evgeni Malkin will not play tonight and is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. pic.twitter.com/xXykKWyZMF
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) January 7, 2025
First period
Poor start for the home team, Erik Karlsson takes a penalty and Columbus scores on the power play. Dmitry Voronkov gets his big body to the front and redirects a shot/pass from Kirill Marchenko to put the Blue Jackets on the board 3:20 into the game.