Morning Skate Update: Sykora officially out

Florida Panthers (34-24-8-76) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (35-26-6-76)

Pittsburgh Penguins forward Petr Sykora did not participate in today’s morning skate and will miss tonight’s game against the Florida Panthers. The Penguins took the ice at 10:30 a.m.

The Penguins have made a few changes. The Lineup for both teams will be

Kunitz – Crosby – Guerin

Dupuis – Malkin – Fedotenko

Cooke – Staal – Kennedy

Adams – Talbot – Godard

Orpik – Gonchar

Scuderi – Gill

Eaton – Letang

LineupNews: Head Coach Dan Bylsma made a few adjustments in the morning skate. Maxime Talbot took a few shifts with Evgeni Malkin and Ruslan Fedotenko. That is something we could see tonight at times. For the majority of the time though, Dupuis was with the second line.

Bylsma talked yesterday how he will continue to try to use Crosby and Malkin together in certain situations. When asked about Jordan Staal getting a shot at wing with Malkin if Sykora is out for a while, Bylsma said no.

*Kunitz – Guerin – Crosby

Malkin – Gonchar

*Guerin – Crosby – Malkin

Letang – Gonchar

The Florida Panthers will be without two key contributors tonight as forward Nathan Horton and defenseman Bryan McCabe did not make the trip to Pittsburgh. Horton will be sidelined for 2-4 weeks.

Booth – McLean – Zednik

Stillman РWeiss – Dvorak

Peltonen РFrolik – Campbell

? – Kreps – Stewart

Defensemen

Bouwmeester – Skrastins

Boynton- Ballard

Eminger-Cullimore

*Tomas Voukon will start in goal

Key Scratches: Horton, McCabe