PENGUINS (38-21-16) at LIGHTNING (46-22-6)

7 p.m. ET; The Spot, SN-PIT

Penguins projected lineup

Bryan Rust  — Sidney Crosby — Rickard Rakell

Egor Chinakhov — Tommy Novak — Evgeni Malkin

Anthony Mantha  — Ben Kindel — Justin Brazeau

Elmer Soderblom — Connor Dewar — Noel Acciari

Parker Wotherspoon — Erik Karlsson

Samuel Girard — Kris Letang

Ryan Shea — Connor Clifton

Stuart Skinner

Arturs Silovs

Scratched: Ilya Solovyov, Ryan Graves, Rutger McGroarty, Ville Koivunen, Avery Hayes

Injured: Kevin Hayes (upper body), Filip Hallander (blood clot), Blake Lizotte (upper body), Jack St. Ivany (upper body)

Suspended: Caleb Jones

Lightning projected lineup

Gage Gonclaves — Anthony Cirelli — Nikita Kucherov

Oliver Bjorkstrand — Brayden Point — Jake Guentzel

Zemgus Girgensons — Yanni Gourde — Pontus Holmberg

Corey Perry — Nick Paul — Mitchell Chaffee

Darren Raddysh — J.J. Moser

Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak

Emil Lilleberg — Charle-Edouard D’Astous

Andrei Vasilevskiy

Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Steve Santini, Victor Hedman

Injured: Declan Carlile (undisclosed), Maxwell Crozier (core muscle), Dominic James (lower body), Brandon Hagel (undisclosed), Scott Sabourin (undisclosed)

Status report

Rust will return after missing a 5-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday with a lower-body injury. … Forwards Hagel and Sabourin each will not play after missing practice Wednesday. … Chaffee was recalled from Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Thursday.