Chirps from Center Ice

A bunch of Penguins rookies are in London, Ontario for the annual rookie tournament. The Penguins played the Ottawa Senators this afternoon. Both teams were filled with young players which will likely be mainstays in the AHL, ECHL or back to juniors and maybe one or two players with a realistic shot at NHL action this season.

Here’s a look at the rosters. Lines cobbled together looked like this:

Kuhnhackl-Megna-Brace
Sylvester-Nejezchleb-Dea
Simmonds-Rankin-Rowney
Farnham-O’Brien-Marcantuoni

Pouliot-Samuelsson
Maatta-Harrington
D’Agostino-Seymour

Hartzell-Jarry

Samuelsson wore the C and Jayson Megna was the alternate.

Scratches were D’s Harrison Ruopp and Brian Dumoulin and forwards Reid McNeill, Dominik Uher, Adam Payerl and goaltender Matt Murray.

Oh, Ottawa won 4-1. Cody Sylvester scored the lone goal for Pittsburgh.

Ottawa jumped out to a 2-0 lead before Sylvester scored with 3.4 left in the first period.

Jarry replaced Hartzell about halfway through the second.

Derek Grant scored a goal in the second and again in the third.

Bobby Farnham was in midseason form, fighting twice and getting a game misconduct.

If I am following the WBS twitter feed correctly, it looks like the Penguins were 1-for-4 on the power play. There was no box score, so I don’t really know.

If if the Penguins put a recap on wbspenguins.com I will tweet it and link it here. EDIT: Here is the recap. EDIT 2: Pittsburgh had a recap as well.

Penguins play Saturday vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs prospects.