Winless Penguins at Atlanta tonight

Pittsburgh's only points this year have come from overtime losses.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- He said it with a straight face and in a monotone, so one might have missed Ryan Malone's attempt at humor.
The Pittsburgh forward was asked what the Penguins must do to emerge from their season-opening nine-game losing streak.
"We've figured it all out," he said after practice Wednesday. "Everything will be OK tomorrow."
Malone can only hope the Penguins (0-4-5) begin turning their season around tonight against the Atlanta Thrashers, unless they are attempting to become the first team in NHL history to reach the playoffs on points accumulated in overtime losses.
Only team without win
The Penguins have earned a point in five of their nine games, but have lost each of those five games in overtime or a shootout, and the other four in regulation. They have been the only NHL team without a win for nearly two weeks.
The Penguins earned another point in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Florida Panthers on Tuesday, and they held a lead for only the second time all season. The problem was their 3-2 lead late in the third period dissolved into another loss in less than 3 1/2 minutes.
"We're finding ways to get some points even though we are not playing our best hockey," Malone said. "There were some positives to take from the [Florida] game."
The Penguins outshot an opponent for the first time, but that was partly because they held a 12-7 edge in power plays. Still, coach Eddie Olczyk said he was pleased with the way his team played at even strength -- even if the teams played 5-on-5 for less half the game.
"I liked the way we played in our own end, liked the way we played in the neutral zone," Olczyk said. "I thought we had a lot of good scoring chances."
Lemieux loses cool
But the Panthers scored on their final two power-play opportunities. The final penalty was an interference call on Mario Lemieux in the closing seconds of the third period that carried into overtime and caused him to scream at the officials. It was a rare show of anger by Lemieux and perhaps a sign the losing is getting to the 40-year-old Hall of Famer, captain and team owner.
"It's frustrating," Lemieux said Wednesday, after declining to talk after the game. "But if we get a few wins together, guys start to relax more. To get out of it, we are going to have to do it ourselves."
One lineup change
Olczyk is making one lineup change for tonight, inserting backup Sebastian Caron in goal.
Jocelyn Thibault is 0-3-1 with a 5.66 goals against average and .857 save percentage in four games. Caron is 0-0-3 with a 3.60 GAA and .892 save percentage in four games.
Olczyk insists Caron is starting only because of the heavily compacted schedule -- tonight's contest is the second in a stretch of 12 in 23 days -- but some players acknowledged that perhaps the 25-year-old can provide a spark.
"I'm not looking at it that way," Caron said. "I'm just going to go out and try to do the best I can, and hopefully that will be good enough to get us a win."
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