Penguins Game 68, Jarry, Jarry?; Lines, Notes, & How to Watch vs. Blues

The Pittsburgh Penguins (26-31-10) are about individual growth and opportunities as they push toward the end of the 2024-25 NHL season. Their patchwork lineup of hopefuls and new names face the St. Louis Blues (31-27-7) at PPG Paints Arena Thursday.

The puck drops just after 7 p.m.

The Penguins withstood an onslaught from the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday. They were outshot 38-17 and 19-4 in the third period. However, the Penguins got a stellar goaltending performance by Tristan Jarry and more offense driven by Sidney Crosby in a 3-2 overtime win.

Erik Karlsson snapped the winning wrist shot on the first shot of overtime.

Jarry stopped 36 of 38 shots and even earned a few “Jarry, Jarry!” chants. The Penguins goalie will make his third straight start as he attempts a U-turn on his season and career after being waived in January.

Read More: ‘Let it All Go’: This Tristan Jarry Seems Different; New Scenarios.

St. Louis is in a playoff fight. They’re two points back of the Calgary Flames for the second wild card, but Calgary has one game in hand. Each St. Louis game becomes more important and they’re 7-1-2 in their last 10.

Their playoff push seemingly caused general manager Doug Armstrong to pull Brayden Schenn off the trade market.

Jordan Binnington, the hero of Team Canada in the Four Nations Face-Off victory, will start for St. Louis.

Penguins Lines

Rickard Rakell-Sidney Crosby-Bryan Rust

Danton Heinen-Evgeni Malkin-Philip Tomasino

Boko-Kevin Hayes-Emil Bemstrom

Connor Dewar-Blake Lizotte-Noel Acciari

Defense

Vladislav Koyachonok-Kris Letang

Matt Grzelcyk-Erik Karlsson

Ryan Graves-Conor Timmons

Goalie: Tristan Jarry

Blues Lines

Jake Neighbours-Robert Thomas-Pavel Buchnevich

Dylan Holloway-Brayden Schenn-Jordan Kyrou

Mathieu Joseph-Oskar Sundqvist-Zack Bolduc

Alexey Toropchenko-Radek Faksa-Nathan Walker

Defense

Cam Fowler-Nick Leddy

Philip Broberg-Justin Faulk

Ryan Suter-Tyler Tucker

Goalie: Jordan Binnington

Special Teams

Penguins power play: 24.2%, 9th. Penguins penalty kill: 78.4%, 17th.

Blues power play: 19.3%, 24th. Blues penalty kill: 71.2%, 29th.

Penguins Game Notes

The Penguins are 6-1-0 over the last seven games against the Blues and are (8-3-1) dating back to Feb. 4, 2017.

Jarry has played in seven career games versus St. Louis going 6-1-0 with a 1.85 goals-against average, .929 save percentage and one shutout. He’s undefeated against them here at PPG Paints Arena, going 4-0-0 with a 1.17 goals-against average and .958 save percentage.

Evgeni Malkin has picked up 23 points (9-14-23) in 23 career games vs. St. Louis.

Bryan Rust has 14 points (5-9-14) in his last nine games against St. Louis.

How to Watch

TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh; Radio: 105.9 The X