Good Evening, Penguins fans, and welcome to your Game Day Thread. Tonight, Letsgopens.com brings you the Pittsburgh Penguins vs the New York Islanders in a First Round Playoff matchup.
h/t, Shawn Montgomery. There's a whole slew of vids people have made for the playoffs out on YouTube, this is the one I liked best.
TONIGHT'S MATCHUP:


Game time 7:00 PM, CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA
TV: ROOT Sports, NBC Sports Network
Radio: WXDX and the Penguins Radio Network, WRHU and the Hofstra Flying Dutchmen Radio Network
GOALTENDING MATCHUP
Marc-Andre Fleury, 1-0, 0.00 GAA, 1.000 SV% vs Evgeni Nabokov, 0-1, 10.98 GAA, .733 SV%
LAST MEETING
The Pens won Game 1 of the best of 7 series, 5-0 at Consol Energy Center on Wednesday. Pascal Dupuis had two goals and Marc-Andre Fleury registered a shutout.
FAST FACTS
*Tonight's game will mark the return of Sidney Crosby to the Pens' lineup. Crosby has missed 12 regular season and one playoff game with a broken jaw.
*Winger James Neal was limping heavily on Thursday, missed practice and is presumed to be out for tonight's game.
*Pens Center Jussi Jokinen seemed to suffer few if any effects of a knee on knee collision with the Islanders' Marty Reasoner. He is expected to play tonight.
MORNING SKATE LINES per Sam Kasan's Penguins Report
Kunitz-Crosby-Dupuis
Bennett-Malkin-Iginla
Morrow-Sutter-Cooke
Glass-Jokinen-Adams
(Vitale, Jeffrey, Kennedy)
Martin-Engelland
Murray-Niskanen
Eaton-Letang
Despres-Bortuzzo
1st power-play unit: Letang and Iginla up top, Crosby, Malkin and Kunitz down low.
2nd power-play unit: Martin and Niskanen up top, Morrow, Jokinen and Bennett down low.
TONIGHT'S GORDIE HOWE HAT TRICK (for your pregame or intermission enjoyment):
Goal: SID'S BACK!!!!!!! BLEEP YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Assist: Lang to Jagr, Money.
Fight: Thought about going a different direction with this but it's just too obvious:
"It takes 16 wins to win the Stanley Cup. You've got 1. Go get number 2 tonight!" - P. Bourque.
LET'S GO PENS!!!