Penguins Practice: Sullivan Shakes Up Middle-Six

CRANBERRY — The Pittsburgh Penguins, coming off their first back-to-back regulation losses since early December, reconfigured their second and third lines during practice at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex Wednesday.

Coach Mike Sullivan bumped Colin White up to right wing on the second line, with Evgeni Malkin and Drew O’Connor, while Rickard Rakell dropped to the third line, alongside Lars Eller and Valtteri Puustinen.

Here are the personnel combinations deployed during drills:

Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
O’Connor-Malkin-White
Puustinen-Eller-Rakell
Harkins-Acciari-Carter

Pettersson-Letang
Graves-Karlsson
Joseph-Ruhwedel/Shea

Kyle Dubas, the Penguins’ president of hockey operations and general manager, has been observing the workout from the management balcony.