Chirps from Center Ice

Tonight the Penguins rookies played the Toronto Maple Leafs Rookies in London, Ontario.

A look at the lineups here.

Scott Harrington opened the scoring for the Penguins in the first period.

There was a fight. Then another one.

Toronto scored a power play goal. An action packed first period.

Jayson Megna scored a goal in the second period on a backhander off of a rebound.

Matt Murray started the game in goal. He was replaced halfway through by Eric Hartzell. Hartzell let in a goal quickly afterwards which brought the game even at two a piece.

In the third, the Penguins couldn’t score on a power play and the Leafs scored shortly thereafter.

Late, Tom Kuhnhackl scored with 19.1 seconds to go in regulation with Hartzell pulled.

Overtime solved nothing. Please keep reading.

ATO tryout Jean-Sebastian Dea scored in round two of the shootout. No other Penguin did the same, and the Leafs won in the shootout 4-3.

Brian Dumoulin had two assists.

Rookie tournament wraps up tomorrow at 2 pm, when the Penguins square off against the Chicago Blackhawks.