The Pittsburgh Penguins are expected to start goaltender Casey DeSmith in Tuesday’s home game against the Edmonton Oilers.

In 24 games this season, DeSmith has a 10-5-5 record, a 2.72 goals-against average, a .915 save percentage and three shutouts.

Aside from the Penguins, the Oilers are the only NHL franchise DeSmith never has faced in his career.

Notes:

• The Penguins’ lines and pairs during Tuesday’s morning skate were:

59 Jake Guentzel – 87 Sidney Crosby – 17 Bryan Rust

23 Brock McGinn – 71 Evgeni Malkin – 67 Rickard Rakell

16 Jason Zucker – 77 Jeff Carter – 42 Kasperi Kapanen

43 Danton Heinen – 53 Teddy Blueger – 9 Evan Rodrigues

8 Brian Dumoulin – 58 Kris Letang

5 Mike Matheson – 2 Chad Ruhwedel

28 Marcus Pettersson – 6 John Marino

• The top power-play unit included Crosby, Guentzel, Letang, Malkin and Rust. The second power-play unit involved Carter, Kapanen, Matheson, Rakell and Zucker.

• The Oilers are expected to start goaltender Mike Smith. In 27 games this season, Smith has a 15-9-2 record, a 2.88 GAA, a .913 save percentage and two shutouts.

In 20 career games against the Penguins, Smith has a 9-10-0 record, a 2.75 GAA, a .911 save percentage and two shutouts.

• Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard is slated to play in his 100th career game.

The Oilers have not had a regulation win in Pittsburgh since Penguins forward Sidney Crosby’s rookie season when they claimed a 3-1 victory at the Mellon Arena on Jan. 10, 2006.

That game was far more renowned for the postgame remarks of former coach Michel Therrien:

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