Pre-game Skate: B’s/Penguins

Well Boston fans, get ready for a night of drama and calls not going the Bruins way. Sidney “cry baby” Crosby is back on the ice, which means anytime someone breathes on him a penalty will be called. Or if a call is missed he will go crying to the ref looking for a call.

It should be an interesting game. Pittsburgh is in dire need of points to have home ice over the Flyers in the first round. The Bruins, however, are just content where they are. From a Bruins perspective it has the feel of a few seasons ago when the team was just awful after the lock-out. Only a few games left in the season, no real goaltending, a patch-work line-up, in a meaningless game. Fortunately, the game is meaningless for better reasons.

Torey Krug will make his NHL debut on D, Turco will be getting the start and Khudobin will be his back-up as Tim Thomas has the night off entirely.

NESN has tonight’s projected line-ups:

Projected Bruins lines
Forwards
Milan Lucic-David Krejci-Rich Peverley
Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-Tyler Seguin
Benoit Pouliot-Chris Kelly-Brian Rolston
Daniel Paille-Gregory Campbell-Shawn Thornton
Defense
Zdeno Chara-Dennis Seidenberg
Andrew Ference-Johnny Boychuk
Greg Zanon-Torey Krug
Goalies
Marty Turco
Anton Khudobin
Scratches: Tim Thomas, Adam McQuaid (eye), Joe Corvo, Mike Mottau, Jordan Caron (flu), Nathan Horton (concussion), Tuukka Rask (groin)

Projected Penguins lines
Forwards
Chris Kunitz-Evgeni Malkin-James Neal
Steve Sullivan-Sidney Crosby-Pascal Dupuis
Matt Cooke-Jordan Staal-Tyler Kennedy
Arron Asham-Joe Vitale-Craig Adams
Defense
Brooks Orpik-Zbynek Michalek
Paul Martin-Kris Letang
Matt Niskanen-Deryk Engelland
Goalies
Brent Johnson
Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratches: Eric Tangradi, Richard Park, Dustin Jeffrey, Brian Strait, Ben Lovejoy (knee)