Boston Bruins Record: 7-7-2 (3rd in the Northeast)
Pittsburgh Penguins Record: 12-5-0 (1st in the Atlantic)
Bruins Record vs. Penguins Since 2005: 10-4-0-2
Bruins Likely Goalie: Tim Thomas
Penguins Likely Goalie: Marc-Andre Fleury
Bruins Top Scorer: Patrice Bergeron (5 goals, 10 points)
Penguins Top Scorer: Sidney Crosby (9 goals, 16 points)
Injury Report: We may need to do another post just to list all the injuries between these two teams.
Pittsburgh will be without Evgeni Malkin (shoulder), Maxime Talbot (shoulder), Sergei Gonchar (wrist), Tyler Kennedy (undisclosed) and Kris Letang (rabies from Scott Hartnell).
Boston will be without Marc Savard (broken foot)and Milan Lucic (finger). David Krejci is probable for tonight, but is recovering from the swine flu.
Preview Notes: The Penguins are struggling with injuries and fly into Boston after three games on the west coast. They're probably going to be more tired than Pierre McGuire's mouth after a visit to the Flyers locker room.
Captain Sidney Crosby is on a four game point-less streak, the longest of his career. The tighter Bruins defense, especially nudist Zdeno Chara, will try to extend that.
The Bruins have pretty much dominated the Penguins the last couple years. Perhaps this is payback for the Penguins constantly bouncing the Bruins from the playoffs in the early 90's. But while the Bruins have dominated the Penguins as of late, the Penguins have more Stanley Cups in the past year than Boston has had in 37...
This game has the potential to be really good, but with both teams struggling this could be uglier than a Maple Leafs post-game locker room.
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