This article originally appeared on PGHHockeyNOW.com.
Mike Sullivan took a calculated gamble when the Pittsburgh Penguins faced Ottawa Sunday evening at PPG Paints Arena.
No, not when he deployed rookie forwards Rutger McGroarty and Ville Koivunen on his top two lines and used them on the power play.
Sure, those two entered the game with a combined three games of NHL experience, all on McGroarty’s resume, but both have shown promising offensive ability with the Penguins’ farm team in Wilkes-Barre. And, hey, nobody who turned up on the Penguins’ bottom-six has done enough to merit a more prominent role, anyway.
No, Sullivan’s big risk was starting Tristan Jarry in goal for the fourth game in a row, considering that he had been pulled from the previous two after allowing a total of eight goals on 19 shots.
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