According to the Penguins website, Bourque will play alongside Malkin and Fedotenko on the second line tonight.

Here's the rest of the line combinations:

Chris Kunitz - Sidney Crosby - Bill Guerin

Chris Bourque - Evgeni Malkin - Ruslan Fedotenko

Matt Cooke - Jordan Staal - Craig Adams

Pascal Dupuis - Mike Rupp - Eric Godard

Brooks Orpik - Alex Goligoski

Mark Eaton - Kris Letang

Jay McKee - Martin Skoula

Marc-Andre Fleury

How will Bourque do riding with Malkin?

The Habs lines:

Mike Cammalleri - Tomas Plekanec - Brian Gionta

Guillaume Latendresse - Glen Metropolit - Matt D'Agostini

Andrei Kostitsyn - Maxim Lapierre - Gregory Stewart

Max Pacioretty - Kyle Chipchura - Travis Moen

Roman Hamrlik - Jaroslav Spacek

Hal Gill - Josh Gorges

Marc-Andre Bergeron - Paul Mara

Jaroslav Halak

Scott Gomez is a game-time decision.

How do the Habs have two players named "Jaroslav" on their roster?

The Penguins brought the Stanley Cup to a Children's Hospital.

Quintin Laing of the Capitals has swine flu.

So does Ladislav Smid of the Oilers and Peter Budja of the Avalanche.

Roberto Luongo will miss a week with a hairline fracture in his ribs.

Simon Gagne of the Flyers has been placed on the long-term injury list.

In an absolutely shocking turn of events, Marian Gaborik is injured.

He won't play tonight and his leg injury may cause him to miss the Rangers' visit to Minnesota.

Is high-definition television making hockey more popular?

The Toronto Star says it is:

While the NHL has built a national U.S. footprint that includes hockey-tepid cities across the sunbelt, major U.S. broadcast deals still haven't come.

And without the billions of dollars in revenues that come with a major TV deal, the league is left to contend with financial basket cases in cities such as Phoenix, Florida and Nashville, which have no cultural connection to hockey.

Many Americans complain the game doesn't translate well onto a television screen where the untrained hockey eye, unaccustomed to the flow of the world's fastest game, struggles to follow the puck.
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"The brilliance of the picture makes it more authentic and no sport competes with the in-arena experience of hockey."

Here are a few examples of the difference between high-def and standard-def hockey:

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Will airing a game in high-definition make more people want to watch it?

For some reason, people are still talking about Chris Kunitz' "slump."

The Trib has this article and the Post-Gazette has this one.

The fact that someone wrote into the PG to say that "Chris Kunitz needs to start contributing" is confusing to say the least.

When Kunitz first came to the team last year we posted this:

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There's no one more well-versed with the working of the Ducks than Earl Sleek from BATTLE OF CALIFORNIA.

"Short version: you'll like Kunitz -- he's got everything but hands.

He may not be worth his money, but he's not far off."

"Chris Kunitz is a pretty perfect fit for the Penguins. He's not that great offensively and mostly leeches off great players, but he's tough and he won't let anyone take liberties with his linemates. I think he has a lot of moral courage, as inappropriate as that sounds."

"He’s put his effort and points in, and generally has provided exactly what he’s provided before – speed, a willingness to shoot and hit, and an offensively complementary game. He might not be blessed with the best set of hands (I’m not convinced Kunitz picks corners when he shoots), and he’s not a guy who will necessarily carry a line, but put him with scorers and he will give them some space."