PENGUINS (3-5-1) at MAMMOTH (6-3-0)
9 p.m. ET; Mammoth+, Utah16, SN-PIT, SN+, TVAS
Penguins projected lineup
Rickard Rakell -- Sidney Crosby -- Bryan Rust
Ville Koivunen -- Tommy Novak -- Evgeni Malkin
Andrei Kuzmenko -- Ben Kindel -- Nicholas Robertson
Connor Dewar -- Blake Lizotte -- Elmer Soderblom
Declan Carlile -- Erik Karlsson
Samuel Girard -- Kaedan Korczak
Spencer Stastney -- Kris Letang
Arturs Silovs
Sergei Murashov
Scratched: Ilya Solovyov, Egor Chinakhov, Hendrix Lapierre
Injured: Justin Brazeau (lower body), Ryan Graves (knee), Trevor van Riemsdyk (lower body)
Mammoth projected lineup
Clayton Keller -- Nick Schmaltz -- Lawson Crouse
Logan Cooley -- Vincent Trocheck -- Dylan Guenther
Anders Lee -- Barrett Hayton -- Kailer Yamamoto
Jack McBain -- Kevin Stenlund -- Daniil But
Mikhail Sergachev -- Mackenzie Weegar
Nate Schmidt -- John Marino
Dmitri Simashev -- Andrew Peeke
Sebastian Cossa
Karel Vejmelka
Scratched: Nick DeSimone, Liam O’Brien
Injured: Maveric Lamoureux (shoulder), Michael Carcone (upper body)
Status report
Penguins coach Dan Muse said Girard and Chinakhov, a forward, are game time decisions. Chinakhov has missed the past two games but was on the ice in a regular jersey at the morning skate. ... Pittsburgh reassigned defenseman Ryan Johnson to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Sunday and recalled Solovyov, a defenseman... The Mammoth are expected to dress the same 18 skaters from their 6-2 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.
