With no signs of a now half-season long slump ending for Kasperi Kapanen, Mike Sullivan might be about to try something new based on Penguins practice lines on Thursday. Other than the usual Sidney Crosby first line with Jake Guentzel and Bryan Rust, the other three lines have been changed up as Pittsburgh prepares to host Vegas tomorrow.
The winner of this line arrangement, should it carry over to the game tomorrow, would be Evan Rodrigues, who perhaps finally gets a crack at playing with Evgeni Malkin. Rodrigues hasn’t been very productive lately either as he looks to get back into the unstoppable groove he once found himself in earlier in the season.