Pittsburgh has named 22 players to its roster for Wednesday’s season opener in Philadelphia: 13 forwards, seven defensemen and two goalies. Five players will start the season on injured reserve. The Flyers game starts at 7:30 p.m. at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
The opening roster includes Egor Chinakhov, Sidney Crosby, Connor Dewar, David Gustafsson, Filip Hallander, Ville Koivunen, Hendrix Lapierre, Evgeni Malkin, Rutger McGroarty, Tommy Novak, Rickard Rakell, Nick Robertson, Elmer Soderblom, Declan Carlile, Sam Girard, Erik Karlsson, Kaedan Korczak, Kris Letang, Ilya Solovyov, Trevor van Riemsdyk, Sergei Murashov and Arturs Silovs.
Justin Brazeau, Ben Kindel, Blake Lizotte, Bryan Rust and Ryan Graves are on injured reserve. Andrei Kuzmenko is designated non-roster after returning to Russia to be with his family following his father’s death in a bear attack. Tristan Broz, Melvin Fernstrom, Oliver Okuliar and goalie Gabriel D'Aigle are designated injured non-roster.
