PITTSBURGH - Five of the Pittsburgh Penguins' nine exhibition games will be played in Mellon Arena or the arenas of their top two farm clubs, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Wheeling, W.Va.

The games, however, are unlikely to be played because of the NHL labor impasse.

The schedule:

Sept. 25, Boston, at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.; 26, Minnesota, at Wheeling, W.Va., 5:05 p.m.; 28, Ottawa, at Binghamton, N.Y., 7:05 p.m.; 30, Ottawa, at Wilkes-Barre, 7 p.m.; Oct. 1, Minnesota, at Grand Forks, N.D., 8:30 p.m.; 2, Washington, at Wilkes-Barre, 7 p.m.; 6, at Washington, 7 p.m.; 8, at Columbus, 7 p.m.; 9, Columbus, at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.