MTS Centre, 6 p.m.

TV: CBC, RDS

Radio: TSN 1290

 

ABOUT THE PENS

Penguins make their second visit of the season to the MTS Centre. The first was a 4-2 loss to the Jets on Jan. 25 in Game No. 4 of the season. The Pens are 3-3-0 on the road.

Pittsburgh comes off a 4-2 home victory over Ottawa on Wednesday night, bumping the team to 9-5-0 and into the top four in the Eastern Conference.

Pittsburgh's top-four power play (15 goals already) is led by James Neal's NHL-best six power-play goals.

As of Thursday, Pens' penalty killing was exactly middle of the pack, 15th, at 82.5 per cent but a full 15 percentage points better than the 30th-ranked Jets.

C Sidney Crosby was tied for second in NHL scoring, with 20 points in 14 games. He scored twice in Winnipeg the last time here, and has just one of his six goals this season on the power play.

WINNIPEG JETS

31 Ondrej Pavelec

32 Eddie Pasquale

4 Paul Postma

5 Mark Stuart

6 Ron Hainsey

8 Alexander Burmistrov

9 Evander Kane

12 Olli Jokinen

13 Kyle Wellwood

14 Anthony Peluso

16 Andrew Ladd

17 James Wright

18 Bryan Little

19 Jim Slater

22 Chris Thorburn

24 Grant Clitsome

25 Zach Redmond

26 Blake Wheeler

27 Eric Tangradi

33 Dustin Byfuglien

39 Tobias Enstrom

44 Zach Bogosian

80 Nik Antropov

PITTSBURGH

PENGUINS

29 Marc-Andre Fleury

92 Tomas Vokoun

2 Matt Niskanen

5 Deryk Engelland

7 Paul Martin

9 Pascal Dupuis

10 Tanner Glass

14 Chris Kunitz

15 Dustin Jeffrey

16 Brandon Sutter

17 Zach Boychuk

18 James Neal

19 Beau Bennett

24 Matt Cooke

27 Craig Adams

41 Robert Bortuzzo

42 Dylan Reese

44 Brooks Orpik

46 Joe Vitale

47 Simon Despres

48 Tyler Kennedy

58 Kris Letang

71 Evgeni Malkin

87 Sidney Crosby

-- Campbell

 

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 15, 2013 C2