CRANBERRY, Pa. -- After an embarrassing 4-0 loss to the Hurricanes on home ice Tuesday night, Mike Sullivan changed up the lines and defense pairings at Wednesday's practice at the Lemieux Complex.
These were the lines and pairs the Penguins used in practice:
Jake Guentzel - Sidney Crosby -Nick Bjugstad
Bryan Rust - Matt Cullen - Phil Kessel
Dominik Simon - Jared McCann - Patric Hornqvist
Tanner Pearson - Teddy Blueger - Garrett Wilson
Marcus Pettersson - Kris Letang
Brian Dumoulin - Jack Johnson
Olli Maatta - Juuso Riikola
(Justin Schultz - Chad Ruhwedel)
The changes to the new pairings compared to Tuesday night's starting lineup are ...
- Nick Bjugstad moves from center to Sidney Crosby's right wing.
- Matt Cullen gets bumped up two lines to replace Bjugstad on the second line
- Bryan Rust goes from first-line right wing to second-line left wing
- Tanner Pearson is bumped down from the second-line to the fourth line
- Marcus Petterson/Jack Johnson and Brian Dumoulin/Kris Letang flip partners.
- Only the third line and all-Finn defense pairing stay intact.
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