Things feel a little more subdued than the standard lead up to a Capitals/Penguins game. That's probably because it's a battle for eighth place between two struggling and injured teams. TONIGHT ON NBC SPORTS NETWORK!!!

Pittsburgh Penguins Lines from Empty Netters.:

Chris Kunitz - Evgeni Malkin - James Neal
Eric Tangradi - Pascal Dupuis - Tyler Kennedy
Matt Cooke - Richard Park - Steve Sullivan
Arron Asham - Joe Vitale - Craig Adams

Brooks Orpik - Deryk Engelland
Simon Despres - Zbynek Michalek
Matt Niskanen - Ben Lovejoy

Marc-Andre Fleury

Washington Capitals Lines from Empty Netters:

Alex Ovechkin - Brooks Laich - Troy Brouwer
Alexander Semin - Marcus Johansson - Mike Knuble
Jason Chimera - Jeff Halpern - Joel Ward
Matt Hendricks - Mathieu Perrault - Jay Beagle

Karl Alzner - John Carlson
Roman Hamrlik - Dennis Wideman
John Erksine - Dmitry Orlov

Tomas Vokoun

 

You should probably just read Empty Netters...