Penguins break the slump with a 6-3 win vs Flyers

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Hey sports Porchers, it's your
hockey.

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Jesus sent him back with
analysis of the Pittsburgh

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Penguins versus the Philadelphia
Flyers.

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Well, the battle on ice for
supremacy in the state of

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Pennsylvania was on display
tonight in Pittsburgh.

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And I am proud to say as a
Pittsburgh Penguins fan, that

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the Pittsburgh Penguins reign
supreme.

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With the score of six to three.
The Pittsburgh Penguins took

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care of business.
They're starting to make that 3

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game losing streak look like
nothing but a history.

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Now I guess, you know, they did
get a point against Tampa Bay

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like we talked about the other
night, but getting a full out

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win against a a hated rival,
although the rivalry is not what

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it used to be, let's face it.
But anyway, getting a win in

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regulation is just glory for the
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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It kind of erases all those
other mistakes and getting six

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goals when you only scored three
goals in the last four games or

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some something close to that.
It's it's just it's just a

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breath of fresh air.
How did they do it?

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Well, it was really about the
special teams tonight.

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Pittsburgh Penguins were 4 for
four on the penalty kill tonight

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and three for four on the power
play.

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And that pretty much is is the
story of the game.

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But let's break it down.
First period Penguins get a

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power play in the first minute,
and I'll be honest with you,

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that first power play, the very
first time they got out there

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look like dog shit again.
They just, sometimes they just

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forget how to pass the puck.
Now get it?

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Carlson's not on the 1st power
play anymore.

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They got the tanger out there.
So maybe they're learning a

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little bit how to reap, you
know, how to play again with

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tanger up on the first line.
But hey, second power play came

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in and they said, let us show
you how it's done.

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Tic tac toe, Brazeau, back of
the net.

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And that was that was really the
great start that they needed and

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they got it power play right
after that.

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Again, they didn't get any
shots.

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So, you know, that was the only
power play they didn't score.

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But I mean, the the Penguins
power play can have some outages

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at times, but they're resilient.
They don't they don't care.

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They keep coming back.
I've been noticing on the power

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play that they're not making
that dumb across the ice pass at

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the blue line anymore.
They might fake it, but they're

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always finding the other the
other guy, you know, down low or

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on the power play goal.
They did shoot a did shoot a

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cross ice pass pass and but it
made it through barely, but it

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made it through to Kendall and
you know, Kendall got it to

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Brazil.
Really nice tic tac toe play

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there.
Other than that, I thought the

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first period the play was a
little sloppy.

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Both teams look like they
weren't.

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They weren't getting it
together.

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There's just a lot of falling
down.

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A lot of you know, a lot of
turnovers in the neutral zone,

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not not good speed into the
entry, terrible pucks out of the

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zone and it just was terrible.
But then, you know, Pittsburgh

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gets their second, their third
power play of the period and

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Rusty just sniped it from right
from the slot.

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Good, good job by rusty burying
that.

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And you know what can you do it?
It's just was just was a great

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shot.
I don't think there's anything

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that the the fires could have
done to do it.

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And, and to be honest, they got
on that power play on a pretty

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ticky tack call that, you know,
whatever they called tripping

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against Hathaway on on Latang, I
call it like I see it, you know,

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and that that wasn't a very good
penalty, but we took advantage

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of it and it happens.
You know, it definitely happens.

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I did notice that when the
Philadelphia Flyers did get to

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the power play, boy, they just,
they just can't get the pox.

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They have no entry into the
zone.

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I didn't realize their power
play was as bad for as long as

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it was.
So yeah, boy, that was just a

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breath of fresh air.
So to nothing at the end of the

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first period and the second
period.

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Oh my gosh.
The Philadelphia fires came out

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storming, but the the Penguins
got the first goal.

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Chinikoff with a just a banger
of a shot on the sweet dish from

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from Malkin made it 3 Nothing.
And then I even typed in my

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notes.
Keep the skid from happening.

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We've been to the three goal
lead before.

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Did you see that statistic?
Wait, I got to pull it up

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because it's just unbelievable.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are five

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and three.
I know they got some loser

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points out of that, but they're
five and three with the three

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goal lead this year.
The rest of the league is 119

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and 0.
I mean that's just amazing.

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That's that's how that goes to
show you that that three goal

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lead is should be magic.
That should be dagger game over.

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But man, when they were losing
those games like that, that just

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goes to show you how odd it was
that they were doing it.

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But I it gave me pause When the
Penguins finally got to that

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three O lead, it definitely gave
me pause.

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So I wrote that.
I typed it in and when Abel's

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got that tipping goal, make it
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and look like look like the
goalie got got hot for

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Philadelphia.
I'm like, uh oh, this does not

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look good.
And the the the fires kept

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coming.
Fortunately, they didn't get

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another goal to make it 32, but
the fourth line really scored

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for us again with less than two
minutes left in the period.

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You know, achary, just digging
at it in Lizotte right there in

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front of the net.
They get it.

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They get a really magic goal
that to make it 4 one.

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I thought that was I thought
that was really kind of the

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dagger.
But, you know, you got to watch

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the game because you never know
what's going to happen.

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And then first thing in the
third period, and I actually

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thought this was the save of the
night, Skinner made a really

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nice save on Trevor Zeigris
right in front of the net.

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And that was, you know, in the
first minute of the play, they

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score that goal and it's 4/2.
And I'm telling you the way the

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Pittsburgh Penguins have played
with three, three goal leads,

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that would not have been good.
But fortunately for the Penguins

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tonight, Skinner was on.
That was a just a just an

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absolute great save.
And you know, there was some

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fighting in there.
Mitch Koff didn't like the hit

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Lizotte put on.
Forget the guy's name for

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Philadelphia.
And Mitch Koff said, Nope,

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you're not going to do that to
my buddy over there on the

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center position and just took
him out.

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So I I actually really, really,
really, really, really thought

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that the Pittsburgh Penguins
tonight did play a a solid game.

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I want to look up the the the
guy's name from Philadelphia,

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who got his, got his bell rung.
That's right.

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It was Barkey.
OK, Yeah.

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Barkey got Barkey got knocked
over.

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Abel scored the goal.
And, you know, Philadelphia

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didn't give up.
The one thing about

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Philadelphia, even though they
were down five, the one and they

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just kept coming, I mean, they
did not really stop playing.

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I thought maybe they stopped
playing when Pittsburgh got the

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sixth goal, made it 6-1.
But after that, they're like,

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you know what, we're going to
try and make a run at this.

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And they did get two goals at
the end.

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But Dewar gate getting that
goal, hitting it out of the air

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from sweet pass, sweet pass from
Novak, my buddy to me that, you

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know, that's really what it was
all about tonight.

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So Skinner with some nice saves,
Pittsburgh Penguins, you know,

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getting off the slide from from
the Philadelphia Flyers.

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I love every minute of it.
I, you know, people who chant

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fires suck.
I'm not a big, I'm not a big

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Flyers suck cheer.
I like to go home.

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Flyers cheer.
To me, it has a better ring.

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And you know what teams don't,
let's face it, teams do suck,

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but you suck too sometimes.
So I, I just, I don't know, I'm

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not a big fan of that Flyers
suck cheer.

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But hey, I wasn't at the game.
So I don't get to, I don't get

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to decide what, what gets
chanted at these games.

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And but I will be at a Flyers
game.

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The very last one they play.
I think it's in April.

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I will absolutely be at that
game.

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So tonight, the Pittsburgh
Penguins are winners.

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They're off three-game slide
onto the win streak.

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One more on this home stand to
play Columbus on Saturday night.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins are 22
and 24 on the year with 54

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points.
That projects them out for 96

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points on the season.
Boy, that's right on the right.

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On the cusp of a of a playoff
position don't look at when they

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show these you know you know
Pittsburgh's out of a playoff

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spot Pittsburgh's not in a
playoff spot you have to look at

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the number of games and you have
to do the projections that's

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what I do here on the porch.
My name is the hockey Jesus.

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One final note, the Pittsburgh
Penguins when the big three

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score, the big three are Malkin,
Crosby and Latang.

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That's right, when they all
three score, and they did

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tonight, the Pittsburgh Penguins
are 209 and 45 all time when the

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big three score.
I thought that was a great

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statistic.
Good job on ESPN tonight.

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I thought the broadcast tonight,
2 thumbs up.

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Two thumbs up with the broadcast
tonight, boys, with Weeksy down

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there between the pipes.
Love it guys.

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Keep up the good work and I will
be back Saturday as the

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Pittsburgh Penguins take on the
Columbus Blue Jackets.

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Hey, it's a 7:00 game, no
afternoon game.

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We'll take it.
I'll see you then.

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Till then, enjoy your hockey.