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The "big screen" is coming back after all.The Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday said all home games in their first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers will be televised on a large video board outside Consol Energy Center, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Washington Place.The big screen will not be in operation when the series moves to Madison Square Garden in New York for Games 3 and 4, and, if necessary, Game 6.Vote: How far will the Penguins go in the playoffs?On Monday, the Pens had said that there would be no big screen for Round 1, citing an ongoing construction project at the old Civic Arena site.Also, Mayor Bill Peduto had said that there was pressure from the NHL and TV networks to avoid large-scale public broadcasts of games this year."We reached out to the Penguins once they clinched the playoffs, well before they had second place sewn up. The big difference this year is the NHL and the network, so trying to work through them is going to be difficult," Peduto said Monday.VIDEO: Watch Marcie Cipriani's reportTeam president David Morehouse, speaking after the Penguins' Monday morning practice, blamed the construction work instead of any network or league restrictions."It has nothing to do with the NHL. There's construction going on across the street, so we're going to wait until we have a little more time to get it done right," Morehouse said Monday. "We didn't want to just throw it in there with all the construction, so we're going to wait for the second round, hopefully."He added at that time, "I think we'll have it, but when we have it, we'll have it in a way that the fans are used to having it -- with a lot of space, with the food trucks out there, with music."Vote: How far will the Penguins go in the playoffs?Game 1 of Pittsburgh's first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers is scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday. The game will be televised nationally on the USA Network and locally on Root Sports.10929024