Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Pittsburgh Penguins (15-9-0, 30 points) and Boston Bruins (15-6-2, 32 points) faceoff live from the TD Garden in Boston in the second of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Pittsburgh fans can hear all of the action by tuning their radios to 105.9 WXDX The X while Boston fans can do the same on 98.5 The Sports Hub.
This is Pittsburgh's first trip to Boston since the team was swept out of the Eastern Conference Finals last spring and both teams enter as the two best teams in the Eastern Conference this season. In the first meeting between these two teams, the Penguins bested the Bruins 3-2 in Pittsburgh on Oct. 30.
The Bruins are coming off of a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday in overtime when David Krejci scored the game-winner off of a pass from Jarome Iginla (4-9-13) to seal the victory.
"It was great by Krech with the patience," Iginla said via NHL.com. "But I was like, 'Oh, no. Great move and all, but OK, put it in! Put it in!' "
Krejci is tied for the team lead with 17 points off of four goals and 13 assists while Milan Lucic also has 17 points off of a team-high nine goals and eight assists and Reilly Smith has points in three of his last four games for a total of 15 points off of four goals and 11 assists.
The Penguins are coming off of a 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens Saturday which snapped a three-game winning streak.
"We battled hard to get back into it," Penguins captain Sidney Crosby told NHL.com. "But it's a tough game to play when you're fighting [from behind] like that in the third period."
Crosby is the team's leader with 30 points off of 12 goals and 18 assists while Evgeni Malkin has found the back of the net four times and added 22 assists for 26 points and Chris Kunitz has lit the lamp 11 times and added 10 helpers for 21 points.
This unit will try to stop Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask between the pipes. Rask has started 19 of the team's 23 games and is 12-5-2 with a 1.62 goals-against average and a .945 save percentage. Marc-Andre Fleury has manned the crease for 20 of Pittsburgh's first 24 games and is 13-7-0 with a 1.95 GAA and a .923 save percentage thus far this season.
Two of the NHL's top teams collide tonight when the puck drops on the Penguins and the Bruins at the TD Garden in Boston.
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