With the preseason right around the corner, the Pittsburgh Penguins are starting to form their lines for the year.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are three days into their training camp for the 2023-24 season and while you shouldn’t set anything in stone, the lineup seems to be coming together pretty quickly.

Following the third day of camp, the Penguins will play split-squad games against the Columbus Blue Jackets and soon after that, cuts to the roster are likely to start getting made.

Camp battles will be ongoing until the regular season arrives, but chemistry is already being built in every area of the roster.

The Penguins have done a good job of rotating names around the lineup, getting just about everyone some ice time with each other.

In no particular order and with rotations, this is how the forward lines have formed.

Vinnie Hinostroza – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust
Reilly Smith – Evgeni Malkin – Andreas Johnsson
Drew O’Connor – Lars Eller – Rickard Rakell
Matt Nieto – Noel Acciari – Jeff Carter
Sam Houde – Jonathan Gruden – Austin Rueschhoff
Corey Andonovski – Colin White – Matt Filipe
Radim Zohorna – Sam Poulin – Valtteri Puustinen
Matthew Soto – Evan Vierling – Avery Hayes
Jagger Joshua – Brayden Yager – Marc Johnstone

Austin Wagner, Dillon Hamaliuk, and Peter Abbandonato have been rotating around the forward group.

The defense has seen a ton of rotations on just about every line, but a rough set of pairs have been:

Ryan Graves – Kris Letang
Marcus Pettersson – Erik Karlsson
P.O. Joseph – Mark Friedman
Ty Smith – Taylor Fedun
Isaac Belliveau – Andre Anania
Xavier Ouellet – Mark Pysyk
Dmitri Samorukov – Jack St. Ivany
Justin Lee – Libor Hajek

Tristan Jarry is the clear set starting goalie for the Penguins and Alex Nedeljkovic has been spoken highly of as the backup option at the NHL level.

Injured players have been skating prior to each practice and are progressing at their own rate.

Jake Guentzel
Owen Pickering
Raivis Ansons
Will Butcher
Nolan Collins

The Penguins entered camp with 58 names and soon enough that number will start to shrink.

Cuts are expected to start being made following the split squad games against the Blue Jackets.

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