Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Boston Bruins (7-3-0, 14 points) and Pittsburgh Penguins (8-4-0, 16 points) go head-to-head live from the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. The game can be live streamed here. Boston fans can hear all the action on WBZ-FM 98.5 while Pittsburgh fans can do the same on WXDX-FM 105.9.
In the first of three meetings and the first rematch between these two teams since last year's Eastern Conference Finals, the visiting Bruins enter the game in fourth place in the Atlantic Division, four points shy of the division-leading Toronto Maple Leafs while the Penguins enter play atop the Metropolitan Division and lead the second place Carolina Hurricanes by five points.
The Penguins are coming off of a 3-1 road victory against the Hurricanes on Monday and have been paced by Sidney Crosby, who leads the league in points with 20 and is tied for second in the NHL with 12 assists while adding six goals this season. Crosby was recently asked about his take on concussions and told NBC Sports he wasn't too worried.
"You know what? I'm not that concerned to be honest," Crosby told NBC Sports. "I think I'm probably more confident than ever that they'll eventually find ways to help [solve the problem]."
Pittsburgh will be looking to avenge an Eastern Conference Final sweep it suffered last postseason at the hands of the Bruins.
Boston enters Pittsburgh tonight with a perfect 4-0-0 road record. Boston squandered a 3-1 lead at New Jersey against the Devils Saturday and ended up losing 4-3 after their penalty kill let up four goals.
"Definitely that last game, we kind of weren't prepared well enough I guess. I think we should, ourselves as players, take onus on that," forward Daniel Paille told the team's website. "So for us, obviously, we want to work back up to being tops in the League."
Boston comes up against a tough Pittsburgh team who has a potent offense that doesn't stop at Crosby. Chris Kunitz has five goals and seven assists for 12 points while Evgeni Malkin has added three tallies with seven helpers for 10 points.
The Bruins have been paced by David Krejci who has a team-high 12 points off of two goals and 10 assists while Milan Lucic has lit the lamp a team-leading six times to go along with five assists for 11 points.
Between the pipes, the Pens Marc-Andre Fleury enters the play in second place in the league with eight wins while posting an 8-2-0 record with a 1.79 goals-against average and a .928 save percentage. Boston counters with Tuukka Rask in the crease, who has a 6-3-0 record and ranks third in the league in GAA (1.56) and save percentage (.947)
In a rematch of the 2013 Eastern Conference Finals, two Eastern Conference power houses go at it when the Bruins and Penguins hit the ice in Pittsburgh tonight.
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