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Hey sports Porchers, it's your
hockey Jesus, and I'm back with
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analysis of the Pittsburgh
Penguins versus the Columbus
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Blue Jackets.
Well, tonight the Pittsburgh
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Penguins, of course, had to go
in the extras to try and beat
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the Columbus Blue Jackets and
they were unsuccessful.
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The score was four to three.
But you know, every single game
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they played against Columbus
this year went into extras.
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They lost in a shootout, they
win in overtime, they win in
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overtime, and they lose in a
shootout tonight.
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They only have one regulation
loss in 13 games versus the
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Metro.
Now.
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It's actually 14 games.
It didn't include this game.
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And Merce Lincoln's guaranteed
to win tonight.
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And you know what, he stood
behind his words getting the win
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and he was absolutely
instrumental.
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He gets the he gets the first,
he gets the first star.
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If you ask me, he he really
goalieed us tonight.
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Look, he can be really sharp
when he is on Elvis Merz,
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Lincoln's one of the best
goalies in the league.
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You know, Columbus got a new
coach and Rick bonus and now
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they're three and O with him 21
and you know, 6 points, but I
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digress.
So the first period started out
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with of course, NX Penguin
scoring a goal.
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Zach Astrom Reese got a gift and
then up right in front Le Tang
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just missed it getting to the
puck, but they score first one
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nothing.
Clifton got on a goal, got a
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goal, his first as a Pittsburgh
Penguins.
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So he tied it up 11 and then
Raquel before the period ended,
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just got a sweet dish from Sid.
I still have no idea how Raquel
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hit that out of the air.
It was amazing to me.
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It just, it was like on edge and
he just whacked it and it went
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right in the goal.
Just a great goal by Raquel.
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Actually, second period, you
know, Penguins had a power play
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in the second period.
They had one of the first.
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It wasn't effective.
The power play tonight was what
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killed the Pittsburgh Penguins.
And on the second power play,
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would somebody tell if Danny
Malkin that a power play means
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you don't skate through four
guys and shoot the puck.
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You set it up and you pass it
around until you get a great
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shot.
Oh, that first power play just
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drives me nuts sometimes,
tonight especially.
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And then in the third period
when they were out there, they
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stayed on after a minute.
I just, you know, put on the
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second power play.
Give them a chance.
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I I just don't like that.
And there's there's one more
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gripe that I got, but I'm going
to save it for the end.
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She left.
I thought had a week after it on
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that Marchenko goal, but man,
that guy's got a great shot.
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Marchenko tied it 22.
And of course, another X
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Penguin, Danton Heinen got the
3-2 lead goal.
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Look like that was going to
stand that he got it towards the
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end of the second period.
But the Pens come out flying in
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the third period, but they get
really zero effort for for for
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all the skating that they were
doing look pretty good in the
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third period.
Got a good start but didn't
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really get anything for it.
They got that power play.
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I thought that was going to be
the winner, but Columbus super
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aggressive on the power play,
one of the worst penalty killing
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teams along with Winnipeg.
Go figure.
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The teams that are just terrible
at the power play suddenly play
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aggressive against us and they
just shut us, shut our power
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play down tonight.
The Pittsburgh Penguins were
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over 3 on a power play,
including that one in the third.
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Looked a little bit better on
the 3rd.
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I'll be honest with you, they
finally did get out the second
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power play, but they only had
like 20 seconds to set up, so
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not much going on there.
And the Pittsburgh Penguins got
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the game tying goal with the
goalie pulled and Sidney Crosby
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with a patented chip shot.
You know when Latang sees where
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Crosby is, kept it on the ice.
He knew he had to know as soon
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as he let go of that puck,
Latang, that that Sid was not
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going to miss there and he did
not.
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He did not disappoint and he did
bury it and we go into overtime,
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overtime still very, very
entertaining.
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You know, I I'm not a fan of it,
but I get I get the
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entertainment value of the three
on three Pittsburgh Penguins had
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some point blank shots and MERS,
Lincoln said.
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Nope.
This is going to a shootout.
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And in a shootout, well, when
you got a hot goalie like versus
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Lincoln's versus a goalie who
just absolutely does not know
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how to stop the puck in a
shootout, I think you already
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know it's a foregone conclusion
about what it's going to look
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like in the end.
And that's what happened.
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It did take extras.
It did take a fourth shooter to
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do it but nonetheless still
couldn't pull it out and the
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Pittsburgh Penguins lose 4-3 to
Columbus.
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I'll be honest, the the extra
point to get against Columbus at
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this point benefits the Penguins
because Columbus needs to jump
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above us in the standings.
I'm not going to show you the
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standings even though I probably
could, but in the standings,
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Columbus only is trending
towards 87 points on the year
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and the Penguins are trending
towards 96.
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So it was more important for
Columbus to get 2 points out of
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tonight than one.
We'll take the loser points.
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And you know, that's about the
only thing you can say good
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about this game.
I'll, you know, minus maybe
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pulling the goalie and getting
that extra point, they got 24.
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They got four out of the six
points in these last three
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games.
I told you these last three
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games were pretty important
versus Tampa, versus Philly,
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versus Columbus, they get 2
loser points and a win versus
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Philadelphia.
So I mean, not terrible, not
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terrible.
I guess I'll, I'll take what
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I'll take what they're given
there and that's really it.
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That's all I got for you
tonight. 01 other thing I wanted
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I I wanted to mention I have a
feeling that the Pittsburgh
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Penguins are losing a little bit
of sight about what this what
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this season's supposed to be
about.
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And let me let me explain.
They have Chinnikov now on the
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second line with Gina.
OK, that's that's OK.
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But now they're playing with
Kindle Brazeau and Mantha.
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Look, that's not that's not how
you develop Ben Kindle.
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The way you develop Ben Kindle
is by bringing up younger talent
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to play with him.
OK.
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Playing him with Mantha and
Brazeau, just it's a loser to
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me.
It's an absolute loser to me.
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Hey, M KS in the house.
Good seeing you again, MK.
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Thanks for stopping by the
stream.
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Yeah, Chinika's been good.
You know, I hope I agree with
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you.
I hope to see more of Kindle.
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And that's where my rants coming
from.
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Mki just think they need, they
need younger guys to skate with
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Kindle.
When Kindle is Kindle's not a
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fast skater, he's a playmaker.
And when he's playing with two
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guys who are not fast skaters,
now they can tip the puck.
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Mantha's got a good shot, but
he's not fast enough to go down
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on a break with Kindle.
I just, I don't like, I don't
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like what they're doing with
Kindle right now.
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They need a younger guy to play
with them.
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They need to bring somebody up.
They need to trade somebody to
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make some space on this roster
so they can do it.
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I mean, I'd get Mcgroarty's out
with an injury.
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He'd be probably in if he
wasn't.
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But that's my that's my great
for tonight.
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My great for tonight is
Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Please remember what the season
is about.
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You have to develop your young
players and right now I just
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feel like they they're going
out.
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They went out to get Chinikov to
play with Gino.
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I know Gino's probably going to
be here next year, but he's not
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the future.
I get it, we're in a playoff
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spot.
I understand all that stuff.
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But you really have to continue
down the path of developing your
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players and that's my gripe for
tonight.
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Hopefully the Pittsburgh
Penguins can get back to getting
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somebody on Kendall's line who
he can skate with.
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Well, that's it for the home
stretch for the Pittsburgh
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Penguins.
Next four games are on the road.
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That's right.
They're hitting the West Coast.
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They're heading Seattle.
Weird that they're playing on
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Monday and they got a 5:00 game
in Seattle.
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I, I know it's, I think it's
like Martin Luther King Day or
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something on Saturday.
So it's probably a matinee.
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Well, clearly it's a matinee out
in Seattle.
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If it's a 5:00 start on the East
Coast and they go to, they're
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going to Seattle, Calgary,
Edmonton and Vancouver.
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Now Seattle's playing pretty
good.
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So that'll be a good challenge.
They, they owe Calgary, so they
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got to get that revenge game
against Calgary.
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Edmonton, who knows what team's
going to show up.
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I'll, I'll be honest with you
both both Edmonton and, and and
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Pittsburgh can be Jekyll and
Hyde when they play each other
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like that against Edmonton and
then at Vancouver.
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Vancouver's one of the worst
teams in the league.
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So to me, they got to get 24.
I'll take five points out of
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eight on the road.
I'll settle for four if that's
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what we get.
Hey, the one thing that you have
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to have to be aware of, and I'm
going to show this, I might do
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it on the porch with the boys.
And by the way, I'm your hockey
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Jesus.
If you don't know who I am, if
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you're like, who is this old guy
talking about hockey?
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I'm the hockey Jesus.
Me and my buddies got a podcast.
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We do a live show on Mondays at
7:00.
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I love to give you Pittsburgh
Penguins after every single
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Pittsburgh Penguins game.
That's what I'm doing tonight.
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But the, the, the schedule does
not favor the Pittsburgh
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Penguins post Olympics.
There are 10 games between now
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and the Olympics.
They got a, they got to make
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some hay.
They got them, they got to win
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some of these games.
They're playing like Chicago and
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the Rangers and Ottawa.
They have to win most of these
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games if they want to be in a
good place.
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Because after the Olympics, Oh
my, it's a murderous row.
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We got to play.
We got to play Carolina a couple
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times.
We got to go to Colorado.
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It's it's going to be rough.
So buckle up and stop by right
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here on the porch.
I'm your hockey Jesus.
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I'll catch you Monday.
Oh my goodness, how am I going
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to do that?
I'm going to be doing a show
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with the boys as the Penguins
game's going on.
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Got to figure that out.
All right, enjoy your hockey.
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I'll catch you in the next one.
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Hey sports Porchers, it's your
hockey Jesus, and I'm back with
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analysis of the Pittsburgh
Penguins versus the Columbus
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Blue Jackets.
Well, tonight the Pittsburgh
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Penguins, of course, had to go
in the extras to try and beat
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the Columbus Blue Jackets and
they were unsuccessful.
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The score was four to three.
But you know, every single game
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they played against Columbus
this year went into extras.
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They lost in a shootout, they
win in overtime, they win in
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overtime, and they lose in a
shootout tonight.
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They only have one regulation
loss in 13 games versus the
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Metro.
Now.
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It's actually 14 games.
It didn't include this game.
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And Merce Lincoln's guaranteed
to win tonight.
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And you know what, he stood
behind his words getting the win
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and he was absolutely
instrumental.
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He gets the he gets the first,
he gets the first star.
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If you ask me, he he really
goalieed us tonight.
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Look, he can be really sharp
when he is on Elvis Merz,
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Lincoln's one of the best
goalies in the league.
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You know, Columbus got a new
coach and Rick bonus and now
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they're three and O with him 21
and you know, 6 points, but I
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digress.
So the first period started out
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with of course, NX Penguin
scoring a goal.
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Zach Astrom Reese got a gift and
then up right in front Le Tang
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just missed it getting to the
puck, but they score first one
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nothing.
Clifton got on a goal, got a
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goal, his first as a Pittsburgh
Penguins.
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So he tied it up 11 and then
Raquel before the period ended,
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just got a sweet dish from Sid.
I still have no idea how Raquel
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hit that out of the air.
It was amazing to me.
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It just, it was like on edge and
he just whacked it and it went
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right in the goal.
Just a great goal by Raquel.
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Actually, second period, you
know, Penguins had a power play
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in the second period.
They had one of the first.
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It wasn't effective.
The power play tonight was what
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killed the Pittsburgh Penguins.
And on the second power play,
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would somebody tell if Danny
Malkin that a power play means
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you don't skate through four
guys and shoot the puck.
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You set it up and you pass it
around until you get a great
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shot.
Oh, that first power play just
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drives me nuts sometimes,
tonight especially.
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And then in the third period
when they were out there, they
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stayed on after a minute.
I just, you know, put on the
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second power play.
Give them a chance.
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I I just don't like that.
And there's there's one more
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gripe that I got, but I'm going
to save it for the end.
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She left.
I thought had a week after it on
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that Marchenko goal, but man,
that guy's got a great shot.
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Marchenko tied it 22.
And of course, another X
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Penguin, Danton Heinen got the
3-2 lead goal.
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Look like that was going to
stand that he got it towards the
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end of the second period.
But the Pens come out flying in
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the third period, but they get
really zero effort for for for
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all the skating that they were
doing look pretty good in the
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third period.
Got a good start but didn't
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really get anything for it.
They got that power play.
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I thought that was going to be
the winner, but Columbus super
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aggressive on the power play,
one of the worst penalty killing
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teams along with Winnipeg.
Go figure.
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The teams that are just terrible
at the power play suddenly play
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aggressive against us and they
just shut us, shut our power
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play down tonight.
The Pittsburgh Penguins were
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over 3 on a power play,
including that one in the third.
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Looked a little bit better on
the 3rd.
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I'll be honest with you, they
finally did get out the second
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power play, but they only had
like 20 seconds to set up, so
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not much going on there.
And the Pittsburgh Penguins got
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the game tying goal with the
goalie pulled and Sidney Crosby
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with a patented chip shot.
You know when Latang sees where
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Crosby is, kept it on the ice.
He knew he had to know as soon
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as he let go of that puck,
Latang, that that Sid was not
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going to miss there and he did
not.
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He did not disappoint and he did
bury it and we go into overtime,
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overtime still very, very
entertaining.
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You know, I I'm not a fan of it,
but I get I get the
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entertainment value of the three
on three Pittsburgh Penguins had
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some point blank shots and MERS,
Lincoln said.
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Nope.
This is going to a shootout.
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And in a shootout, well, when
you got a hot goalie like versus
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Lincoln's versus a goalie who
just absolutely does not know
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how to stop the puck in a
shootout, I think you already
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know it's a foregone conclusion
about what it's going to look
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like in the end.
And that's what happened.
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It did take extras.
It did take a fourth shooter to
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do it but nonetheless still
couldn't pull it out and the
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Pittsburgh Penguins lose 4-3 to
Columbus.
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I'll be honest, the the extra
point to get against Columbus at
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this point benefits the Penguins
because Columbus needs to jump
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above us in the standings.
I'm not going to show you the
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standings even though I probably
could, but in the standings,
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Columbus only is trending
towards 87 points on the year
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and the Penguins are trending
towards 96.
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So it was more important for
Columbus to get 2 points out of
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tonight than one.
We'll take the loser points.
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And you know, that's about the
only thing you can say good
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about this game.
I'll, you know, minus maybe
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pulling the goalie and getting
that extra point, they got 24.
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They got four out of the six
points in these last three
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games.
I told you these last three
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games were pretty important
versus Tampa, versus Philly,
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versus Columbus, they get 2
loser points and a win versus
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Philadelphia.
So I mean, not terrible, not
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terrible.
I guess I'll, I'll take what
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I'll take what they're given
there and that's really it.
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That's all I got for you
tonight. 01 other thing I wanted
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I I wanted to mention I have a
feeling that the Pittsburgh
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Penguins are losing a little bit
of sight about what this what
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this season's supposed to be
about.
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And let me let me explain.
They have Chinnikov now on the
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second line with Gina.
OK, that's that's OK.
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But now they're playing with
Kindle Brazeau and Mantha.
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Look, that's not that's not how
you develop Ben Kindle.
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The way you develop Ben Kindle
is by bringing up younger talent
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to play with him.
OK.
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Playing him with Mantha and
Brazeau, just it's a loser to
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me.
It's an absolute loser to me.
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Hey, M KS in the house.
Good seeing you again, MK.
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Thanks for stopping by the
stream.
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Yeah, Chinika's been good.
You know, I hope I agree with
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you.
I hope to see more of Kindle.
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And that's where my rants coming
from.
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Mki just think they need, they
need younger guys to skate with
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Kindle.
When Kindle is Kindle's not a
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fast skater, he's a playmaker.
And when he's playing with two
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guys who are not fast skaters,
now they can tip the puck.
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Mantha's got a good shot, but
he's not fast enough to go down
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on a break with Kindle.
I just, I don't like, I don't
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like what they're doing with
Kindle right now.
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They need a younger guy to play
with them.
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They need to bring somebody up.
They need to trade somebody to
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make some space on this roster
so they can do it.
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I mean, I'd get Mcgroarty's out
with an injury.
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He'd be probably in if he
wasn't.
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But that's my that's my great
for tonight.
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My great for tonight is
Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Please remember what the season
is about.
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You have to develop your young
players and right now I just
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feel like they they're going
out.
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They went out to get Chinikov to
play with Gino.
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I know Gino's probably going to
be here next year, but he's not
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the future.
I get it, we're in a playoff
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spot.
I understand all that stuff.
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But you really have to continue
down the path of developing your
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players and that's my gripe for
tonight.
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Hopefully the Pittsburgh
Penguins can get back to getting
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somebody on Kendall's line who
he can skate with.
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Well, that's it for the home
stretch for the Pittsburgh
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Penguins.
Next four games are on the road.
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That's right.
They're hitting the West Coast.
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They're heading Seattle.
Weird that they're playing on
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Monday and they got a 5:00 game
in Seattle.
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I, I know it's, I think it's
like Martin Luther King Day or
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something on Saturday.
So it's probably a matinee.
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Well, clearly it's a matinee out
in Seattle.
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If it's a 5:00 start on the East
Coast and they go to, they're
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going to Seattle, Calgary,
Edmonton and Vancouver.
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Now Seattle's playing pretty
good.
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So that'll be a good challenge.
They, they owe Calgary, so they
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got to get that revenge game
against Calgary.
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Edmonton, who knows what team's
going to show up.
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I'll, I'll be honest with you
both both Edmonton and, and and
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Pittsburgh can be Jekyll and
Hyde when they play each other
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like that against Edmonton and
then at Vancouver.
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Vancouver's one of the worst
teams in the league.
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So to me, they got to get 24.
I'll take five points out of
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eight on the road.
I'll settle for four if that's
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what we get.
Hey, the one thing that you have
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to have to be aware of, and I'm
going to show this, I might do
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it on the porch with the boys.
And by the way, I'm your hockey
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Jesus.
If you don't know who I am, if
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you're like, who is this old guy
talking about hockey?
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I'm the hockey Jesus.
Me and my buddies got a podcast.
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We do a live show on Mondays at
7:00.
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I love to give you Pittsburgh
Penguins after every single
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Pittsburgh Penguins game.
That's what I'm doing tonight.
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But the, the, the schedule does
not favor the Pittsburgh
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Penguins post Olympics.
There are 10 games between now
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and the Olympics.
They got a, they got to make
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some hay.
They got them, they got to win
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some of these games.
They're playing like Chicago and
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the Rangers and Ottawa.
They have to win most of these
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games if they want to be in a
good place.
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Because after the Olympics, Oh
my, it's a murderous row.
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We got to play.
We got to play Carolina a couple
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times.
We got to go to Colorado.
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It's it's going to be rough.
So buckle up and stop by right
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here on the porch.
I'm your hockey Jesus.
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I'll catch you Monday.
Oh my goodness, how am I going
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to do that?
I'm going to be doing a show
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with the boys as the Penguins
game's going on.
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Got to figure that out.
All right, enjoy your hockey.
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I'll catch you in the next one.