The Pittsburgh Penguins prepare to open the season Tuesday night against the New York Rangers. Head coach Dan Muse has now decided on one of the Penguins' training camp battles . Muse announced that Arturs Silovs will make the start in goal in New York.

“Silovs has a good camp. We’re going to be looking at both Arturs & Tristan to come up big early this season,” Muse said to reporters today, according to Joe Brand, the radio voice of the Penguins. The battle for the netminder job had been down to two players.

Joel Blomqvist had been one option after playing 15 games at the NHL level last season. He went 4-9-1 in that time with a 3.81 goals agaisnt average and a .885 save percentage. He also stopped all 11 shots he faced in his only preseason action, but an injury has landed him on

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