Chirps from Center Ice

This afternoon the Pittsburgh Penguins prospects closed out the Rookie Tournament up in Lonton, Ontario vs. the Chicago Blackhawks prospects.

They lost 3-2. Recap by Wilkes-Barre here.

A look at the lineups here.

Penguins had a 5-on-3 for 1:23 but couldn’t do anything with it.

Then the Penguins went right back to work on a power play.

But Chicago scored a shorthanded goal to open the scoring at 1-0.

Sound familiar?

Then the Blackhawks got a second goal. Then Bobby Farnham fought again.

The Penguins continued the excitement for first periods, outshooting the Blackhawks 20-11.

J-S Dea had himself quite a tournament. The free agent invitee scored his second goal in as many nights to put the Penguins within one in the second period.

Tristan Jarry started the game, replaced halfway though the second by Matt Murray.

At the end of two, it was 3-1 Chicago.

Dea assisted on Tom Kuhnhackl’s third period goal to bring the Penguins back to within one, but that was all the scoring this hockey game would see.

The team will travel back to the States tonight and likely either head straight to Pittsburgh for the start of training camp Tuesday or to Wilkes-Barre first, then Pittsburgh.