The newest Pittsburgh Penguins are ready to roll.

After dealing with immigration issues that kept them out of the Penguins’ lineup for two games this weekend, Stuart Skinner and Brett Kulak will be eligible to make their debut tonight as the Edmonton Oilers roll into town.

It was a rough weekend for the Penguins, who lost back-to-back overtime games on Saturday and Sunday to the San Jose Sharks and Utah Mammoth. In both games, the Penguins would blow leads.

They had a 5-1 lead five and a half minutes into the third period over the Sharks, allowing four goals against in the final 13 minutes of regulation to force overtime, where John Klingberg scored the game-winning goal. It was much of the same Sunday, as they carried a 3-0 lead over the Mammoth heading into the third period, only for Utah to score four unanswered goals to take a 4-3 lead. Justin Brazeau would get one back for Pittsburgh to force overtime, but 42 seconds in, Dylan Guenther scored to end it.

It’s unknown where Kulak will slot in on the Penguins’ blue line, but with the No. 27 he wore in Edmonton currently worn by Ryan Graves, Kulak will switch to No. 77 — the same number he wore between 2019-2022 with the Montreal Canadiens. Skinner, meanwhile, will wear the same No. 74 he wore for all but his first NHL game.

Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas said on Friday the team was looking forward to helping Skinner rebuild his game.

“The message to the room is that Stu Skinner has had a very good run in Edmonton as well,” Dubas said, via SportsNet Pittsburgh. “I know this year didn’t start off the way that he or the team would have wanted it to, but I think, especially of late, he’s been back playing his game to the level that he’s expected.

“That’ll be up to Stu and (goalie coach) Andy Chiodo and our performance staff and coaching staff and our whole group to support him, have him come in and play well. Obviously, I think if you’re in his shoes, it’s a lot to prove. I mean, they’ve made the move to go away from him, and we’ll give him the best opportunity we can to be at his best.”

Penguins bench boss Dan Muse, meanwhile, said he was excited to have Skinner in Edmonton.

“You can’t put a price on that type of experience,” Muse said, via SportsNet Pittsburgh. “Two years in a row, too. It’s a lot of it. So, yeah, excited for him and the opportunity here. I think the playoffs are so hard. To have been there and to have been through it and to be through that kind of a grind and to be able to learn from it, like, yeah, that experience, you don’t have that in every single locker room. So, it’s another guy here now coming in that has that.”

Puck drop is set for 5:30 p.m. MT in Pittsburgh.

Zach Laing is Oilersnation’s associate editor, senior columnist, and The Nation Network’s news director. He also makes up one-half of the Daily Faceoff DFS Hockey Report. He can be followed on X at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach.laing@bettercollective.com.