Game Day: Leafs vs. Penguins

The Toronto Maple Leafs (10-12-4) are looking for their third straight win tonight as they visit the Pittsburgh Penguins (19-8-2), who have recorded ten straight wins. Despite having both Jordan Staal and Evgeni Malkin on the injured reserve, Pittsburgh has managed to extend its winning streak in large part to the play of Sidney Crosby. The 23-year old centre has recorded 33 points in his past 21 games for a 1.57 points-per-game average. Crosby sits atop the NHL scoring race with 24 goals and 48 points, ahead of both Steven Stamkos and Alex Ovechkin.

Without Dion Phaneuf in the lineup until at least tomorrow, Toronto will have to contain Crosby by committee by ensuring that one of either Francois Beauchemin or Luke Schenn is on the ice against him every shift. Behind him, the Penguins don't have any other dangerous forwards that deserve a special assignment.

The Leafs are hoping that Phil Kessel can snap out of his scoring funk and bring another offensive element to the lineup. Toronto hasn't had concerns with their secondary scoring - Clarke MacArthur, Mikhail Grabovski, Nikolai Kulemin - but desperately needs other players to start contributing.

Jonas Gustavsson with start in net for the Leafs, while Marc-Andre Fleury gets the nod for Pittsburgh. Despite posting a solid 2.75 goals against average, along with a 0.910 save percentage, Gustavsson has only managed 4 wins in 14 games this season due to the lack of support from his teammates. Jean-Sebastien Giguere will serve as the backup tonight while he remains on the sidelines with a groin injury.

Here are tonight's lineups, courtesy of Hockeybuzz.com's Ken Beckett:

Forwards
Colby Armstrong - Phil Kessel - Kris Versteeg
Clarke MacArthur - Mikhail Grabovski - Nikolai Kulemin
Nazem Kadri - Tyler Bozak - Fredrik Sjostrom
Colton Orr - Tim Brent - Jay Rosehill
Ex. John Mitchell

Defense
Tomas Kaberle - Luke Schenn
Francois Beauchemin - Keith Aulie
Carl Gunnarsson - Mike Komisarek
Ex. Brett Lebda

Goalies
Jonas Gustavsson
Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forwards
Chris Kunitz - Sidney Crosby - Pascal Dupuis
Matt Cooke - Maxime Talbot - Arron Asham
Chris Conner - Mark Letestu - Tyler Kennedy
Michael Rupp - Craig Adams - Eric Godard

Defense
Brooks Orpik - Deryk Engelland
Alex Goligoski - Kris Letang
Paul Martin - Milan Michalek

Goalies
Marc-Andre Fleury
Brent Johnson