Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Pittsburgh Penguins (3-2-0, six points) and Detroit Red Wings (3-1-2, eight points) take the ice at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit for the first of three meetings this season. The game can be live streamed here. Pittsburgh fans can hear all of the action on WXDX 105.9 while Detroit fans can do the same on 97.1 The Ticket.
Pittsburgh has lost two out of its last three games and is playing its second match in a row while Detroit has won two of three but lost its last time out.
The Penguins are coming off of a tough 5-4 defeat at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers at home Wednesday night and will look to bounce back.
Pittsburgh will look to limit the turnovers after careless plays with the puck came back to haunt the team Wednesday night.
"I thought we tried to make some dangerous plays in the neutral zone," Penguins coach Mike Johnston said after the game, according to NHL.com. "They turned over the puck and counterpunched against us."
Captain Sidney Crosby has paced the team with nine points off of four goals and five assists this season while Patric Hornqvist (four tallies, four helpers) and Evgeni Malkin (two markers, six assists) each have eight points.
The Red Wings are looking for their scoring touch as they've notched just two goals over the course of their last two games and have only found the twine 12 times through six games this season.
"We've been talking about that a lot here lately. I think the biggest thing is we've got to fight to score more goals, to get some dirty goals," Gustav Nyquist told NHL.com. "We're creating chances, the puck's laying there, but we've got to win those battles, to get a stick on it and put the puck in the net."
Nyquist leads Detroit with four goals and has one assist for five points on the campaign while Henrik Zetterberg leads the club with seven points by way of lighting the lamp twice and adding five helpers.
It will be an interesting game as the Penguins boast a power play that is 8-for-19 (42 percent) this season while the Red Wings are just 2-for-24 (8.3 percent) on the man advantage, but have thwarted off all 15 shorthanded situations they have faced.
In net, Jimmy Howard is the probable goaltender for the Detroit after going 2-1-2 through his first five games with a 1.77 goals-against average and a .937 save percentage while with this being the second game of a back-to-back, Thomas Greiss may make his season debut for Pittsburgh. Greiss went 10-8-5 with the Arizona Coyotes last year with a 2.29 GAA and .920 save percentage.
The Penguins look to bounce back from their loss Wednesday while the Red Wings hope to get their offense going when these teams take the ice tonight live from the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
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