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| The venue for tonight's game: The Norfolk Scope Arena. It has been nicknamed "Mini Madison Square Garden" because of its similarities to the home of the NHL's New York Rangers. |
Highland Park Hockey will continue to be the place to be to get all the live in-game updates, as I will be tweeting and reporting from press row tonight. Follow @H_P_Hockey on Twitter for all the latest on the WBS Penguins.
Some news and notes to get you caught up for tonight's game:
- F Tom Kuhnhackl had season ending surgery to repair a separated shoulder, which Kuhnhackl himself posted on Facebook as the third time he's separated that shoulder. Ouch!
- F Benn Ferriero practiced yesterday but is still questionable for tonight's game, which is why the Penguins announced this morning that F Adam Payerl has re-joined the team after a successful weekend in Wheeling. The move gives the Penguins 13 healthy forwards, excluding Kuhnhackl and Ferriero and including Steve MacIntyre, Paul Crowder and Chris Barton.
- With only six healthy defensemen currently on the WBS roster, I thought today would be the day Carl Sneep would re-join the Pens as well. But a source close to the situation has told me that Sneep won't make it to Norfolk for tonight's game but is in Wilkes-Barre and will most likely join the team when they return home after the game.
- Expect the defense pairings to remain the same tonight:
Brian Dumoulin - Dylan Reese
Joey Mormina - Alex Grant
Joe Morrow - Philip Samuelsson
- It'll be interesting to see who gets the start in net tonight. Jeff Zatkoff has been the team's number one goaltender without a shred of doubt up until this past week. Backup Brad Thiessen has come in and won three of his last four starts, including two shutouts and back-to-back wins the last two games the Penguins played.
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