PRESEASON GAMEDAY 2 - MAPLE LEAFS

Friday, 18 September 2009 03:15 pm

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7:30PM/ET

Mellon Arena

The Leafs are always annoying to play against.

No matter what year it is, they manage to blow the Pens out at least once a season.

It's games against the Maple Leafs that lead to heart attacks, suspensions, and Michel Therrien losing his job.

It's going to be even worse this year.

Brian Burke has ratcheted up the intensity and filled his team with players that would rather start a fight or deliver a big hit than score a goal.

And the fact that it's preseason doesn't mean they won't play rough.

In their game yesterday against the Flyers, the Leafs had four fighting majors and a misconduct penalty.

On Wednesday against the Bruins they also had four fighting majors.

The Pens had two fights against Columbus.

It's not gonna be pretty.

Tonight's line-up for the Pens:

Luca Caputi - Evgeni Malkin - Tyler Kennedy

Matt Cooke - Wyatt Smith - Bill Guerin

Konstantin Pushkarev - Craig Adams- Nick Johnson

Paul Bissonnette - Mike Rupp - Tim Wallace

Alex Goligoski - Nate Guenin

Chris Lee - Kris Letang

Brooks Orpik - Ben Lovejoy

Marc-Andre Fleury

Brent Johnson

No Crosby.

Caputi and Kennedy on a line with Malkin.

Bisonnette and Rupp should be able to handle the Leafs if needed.

The Leafs lineup.

Viktor Stalberg - Matt Stajan - Robert Slaney

Jason Blake - Jason Allison - Jiri Tlusty

Alex Foster - Tim Brent - Bill Thomas

Jamal Mayers - John Mitchell - Darryl Boyce

*Kyle Rogers may play

Garnet Exelby - Ian White

Jeff Finger - Juraj Mikus

Carl Gunnarson - Andy Rogers

Joey MacDonald

James Reimer

Bill Thomas is back in the building.

Another terrible moment in Leafs/Pens history:

We still remember cringing as that puck went in.

The Leafs somehow find a way to make things difficult for the Penguins at least once a year.

The Pens have posted a great shot of the inside of the Consol Energy Center on their site:

The Penguins fill-in PA announcer, Ryan Mill, has his own website.

There's clips of him announcing for NBC on there.

If anyone wants to work for the Pens, they're hiring a "Part-Time Game Night Premium Seating Concierge."

The Pens filmed part of their pregame video today:

Niklas Kronwall and Chris Pronger heard the phrase "headshot day" and got excited.

"I think if you look at Serena Williams, she'll take full responsibility for what she did. She probably did something she regrets. Kanye West ... did something he regrets... When you're talking about the handshake, I did absolutely nothing wrong there."

-- Sidney Crosby