Win Streak Reaches 6 - Geno Returns in 4-1 win

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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 New Jersey

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Devils.
Well, tonight the Pittsburgh

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Penguins keep their hot streak
alive.

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They're at six games in a row.
They beat tonight the New Jersey

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Devils 4 to 1 and actually a
pretty easy game for them.

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It was pretty much smooth
sailing.

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They got Gino back.
They revamped the second line

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instead of instead of having
Gino back with Brazeau and

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Mantha, the good old monster
line, Muse mixed it up a little

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bit because McCrory got injured,
got a concussion in practice.

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So the new second line is now
Gino Chinikoff and and our buddy

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Ben Kindle.
So good to see Ben Kindle get up

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to the second line.
I thought that line was Matt

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tonight, to be honest with you.
Looks like they need some time

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to play together, maybe some
practice together.

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They're going to have time
because they get two more games

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this weekend.
So now the second line, that was

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Novak and the two other guys I
just mentioned.

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They're down on the third line,
but second line, third line,

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whatever.
I I I like the way these lines

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are gelling.
But tonight they did get off to

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a slow start.
But how about Carlson getting

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them off to the good start?
He just came speeding down that

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side and just launched the dart
right at Jake Allen 1.

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Nothing.
And honestly, after that it

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looked like the rust was
starting to shake off.

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I thought the Stu as they like
to stay in Pittsburgh now.

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Stu.
I thought Stu Stu Skinner was

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was great tonight.
Well, that shouldn't say great.

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He he was good tonight.
He was rock solid.

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You know, it kind of made it
interesting in the third.

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But the second period was where
they took over after the penalty

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to do or came out-of-the-box and
buried the five hole.

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Just some luck there.
I mean, if you're the New Jersey

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Devils, you got to be just
shaking your head.

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They're doing, I think all the
right things, but they're just,

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they're just in, they're in bad
shape right now the the New

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Jersey Devils.
And I'm going to show you

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because I'm going to actually do
the standings tonight.

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This is from Sunday, but I am
definitely going to show you the

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projected standings for the
year.

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I think it's pretty interesting.
I'm going to project it and I'm

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going to give you a little look
at what last year playoff teams

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ended up at.
I know it's a little early to be

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talking about playoffs, but I
think it's time to start looking

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at the standings a little bit
more than I have been.

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So second period, you know, like
I said, Dewar gets the goal.

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Gino that power play was looking
like crap screaming at Gino.

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Gina, what are you doing out
there?

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And of course, he buries one
from a sweet sauce pass from Sid

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one time that right in the back
of the net, he still got a laser

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of a shot.
He it really does for a 39 year

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old man, he just his shot is
still unbelievably strong,

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especially from that side.
It's just though it's a laser

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right in the back of the net.
And really that made it 3

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nothing.
You know, they came out and made

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it interesting. 3 nothing.
And you're like saying, uh oh,

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maybe this is going to be like
old times.

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But no, we have our buddy Lizzo
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So it wasn't uh oh, it was
Lizzo.

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And Lizzo gets the fourth goal
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I didn't know this, but in the
with, with, with Lizzo in the

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line up, the Penguins are 19 and
13 with 44 of the 49 points when

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he's in the line up.
That's an astounding that's it.

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That's just an unbelievable.
I, I tried to tell you the guy's

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the glue guy.
He is really got to put it, put

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it together.
He's he really looks great.

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I'm glad, you know, they got to
get that guy signed.

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Let's just get him signed now.
The couple maybe 3 year

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contract.
Let's not overpay, you know,

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let's give him this 3,000,000.
I think that's good. 3 three

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years for 3,000,000.
Let's just do it.

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We got the cap space.
Clearly this guy is a difference

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maker on the fourth line.
When the fourth line scores,

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it's just that's it.
That's the dagger for other

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teams, you know, 'cause you got
your best line out there trying

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to stop the top 2 lines when
that fourth line can come out

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there and score, it's just very
demoralizing for everybody.

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One other thing I want to
mention before I get to the

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standings, Brunicki got Brunick
got sent down to the juniors.

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You know, it's been a while
since we've talked about him,

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but you know, he was playing in
the World Juniors tournament

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with Canada, ended up getting
the bronze with the Canadian

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team.
So they had to make a decision

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whether to bring him back
because they can't send them

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back to the NHL.
That that interesting, you know,

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tidbit of you got to send them
back to the juniors or you got

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to keep them up on the big team.
He just wasn't going to crack

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this line up this year.
You know, they're giving Caleb

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Jones back.
I just think they that he's just

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going to play more minutes down
in the juniors.

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Let's hope, let's hope he gets
some let's hope he gets some

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play time down there and and you
know, he can refine his game so

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he can come back next year and
be on the starting line up.

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Sid with two assists.
Sis tonight passes Gretzky for

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second all time assists with one
teams.

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Of course, Gretzky scored his
with the Edmonton Oilers and

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right now the Pittsburgh
Penguins are projected for 2121

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in 42 games.
That gives them 51 points and a

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projected 100 points for the
season.

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So that leads me to what I want
to show you guys tonight.

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No, no, no highlights tonight.
I'm going to I'm going to go

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over the standings a little bit.
So let's look at the standings

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here.
So the standings are

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interesting.
I am I I finally got my I

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finally got my pointer to work
really well here.

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So you'll be able to see where
I'm where I'm talking about

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South Carolina.
OK, let's let's talk about this

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is so these are statistics as of
Sunday.

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I know some teams have played
this week, but I had to keep a

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stopping point somewhere and I
wanted to kind of do it

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somewhere mid season.
So you can see this is teams

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will have between 40 and 42
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That's the midway point
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So Carolina still at the top 25
and 17 with 53 points.

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They're projected 103.
Philadelphia, unbelievable

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second team in the Atlanta.
This is in the metro and the

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Pens down there at 98.
Now in the Atlantic, looks like

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the teams are maybe a little bit
stronger in the Atlantic.

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But just remember the Pittsburgh
Penguins came off of beating

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Carolina and Detroit just
recently sweeping Detroit.

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So Detroit's trending down
probably should have put the the

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the streaks that are going on in
the last, you know, several

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games.
But I didn't do that.

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We'll do that next time.
Tampa Bay still trending to be

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the best team in the East.
Montreal has been playing great.

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I think they won last night in
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home play in Calgary.
So Montreal is playing great

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they're at 102 points in
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So let's look at the wild card
and here's where it gets

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interesting.
You can see the wild card here

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New York Islanders, Washington
and so these are the points

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here, 50 points.
So you're saying well, they they

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actually should be up here.
The reason these teams are up

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here is because the amount of
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I am normalizing this for a
projected for the for the

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season.
So I'm saying that if you got a

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little bit more points and you
have less games, you're looking

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for a higher point total at the
end.

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I don't know if you like it or
not, but that's what I'm doing.

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I think it's a fair way of
looking at the standings because

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that way you're normalizing the
amount of games played.

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So although New York Islanders
in Washington have more points

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than Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
probably are in here, if you

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were looking at just the regular
standings, I have Philadelphia

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and Pittsburgh in these
positions because of the games

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played.
So New York and Washington at

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this point would still be making
it.

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And but look at all these teams
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I mean, 94 to 90 points, that's
you're still in this within five

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points of of a playoff position.
Definitely.

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And why do I say that?
And then of course, you got your

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kind of your low liars here,
Columbus, who Pittsburgh had to

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come back to beat, keeping them
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And the Rangers down here at the
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Rangers and Columbus down at the
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That's it's, that's not looking
good for the Rangers.

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And here's why.
If you go back to last year's

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right end of the regular season,
OK, so here's here's where,

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here's here's where it ended up
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Washington, Carolina and New
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Montreal snuck in 9799 and the
other teams, Columbus just

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missed out.
And then, you know, Pittsburgh

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kind of fell off here at the
end, etcetera, etcetera, that

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Pittsburgh should actually be up
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But that's OK.
I'm just going to leave them

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there for now.
So you say, what does that mean?

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So what does it mean?
Is this, I think I've got them

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here.
Yeah.

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So near, near the near the
midway point last year.

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OK, Look at these teams that
were still in the hunt,

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Washington, NJ and Carolina.
What do you what do you notice

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here?
They're the same teams almost

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Washington, Carolina and New
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They're just a little
flip-flopped in position and in

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the wild card.
So remember, this is about the

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midway point last year and what
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Boston was in a playoff
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playoff position.
Ottawa makes the playoffs pretty

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solidly.
Boston absolutely fell apart at

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the end of the last season, as
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They just, they lost everything.
They sold everybody off and they

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just they just tanked.
So what happened?

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Montreal got in that position.
So what does that tell you?

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Montreal was sitting here at 82
points, same as the Pittsburgh

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Penguins, same as the
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So about the midway point last
year, you really had these guys

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who were still in it.
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There was already a nine point
differential between, you know,

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Philadelphia, Montreal and
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spot, which is which is amazing
look at look at what happens if

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you go to a nine point
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A nine point differential
basically means everybody's

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still in it.
In the East, 86 -, 95 is 9,

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right?
So, so yeah.

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So really nobody's out of it.
That's really what these

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statistics, this is what the
standings are telling me.

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Nobody in the East, everybody
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Now, you know, you, you might
say, well, that's just theory

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and it is just theory because
there's no way you're going to

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jump over all those teams to do
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But Montreal, you know, was only
had to jump, really didn't have

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to jump over any teams to get up
there, but they had to make up 9

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points and, and they did more
than that is as you can see,

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they, they actually, they
actually jumped the whole way up

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here to the second spot.
So it can be done.

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So I'm going to just stop
sharing my screen now.

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It can be done the you know, if
you're if you're within eight

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points and that's kind of the
that's kind of the bellwether

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mark here.
If you're within eight points

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of, you know, getting in a
playoff position, you can still

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you can still make a go at this.
And the Pittsburgh Penguins

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where the position they're in
now and, and they've been in,

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you know, the top, yeah, they've
been in the top six, trending to

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the top 8, you know, pretty much
all season.

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So that all they have to do is
play steady game, keep their

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keep, keep it going, keep doing
what they're doing.

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Hey, they're getting healthy.
That also helps.

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It always helps, helps to be
healthy when you're when you're

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trying to make a run And you
know what, you'll have no

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problem.
I think, I think that's the big

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deal with the with the
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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That's what I think you'll see,
you know, with the Pittsburgh

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Penguins moving from from here
on out.

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So tonight, the Pittsburgh
Penguins, I've given you the

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standings.
I think that, you know, overall,

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I think what you'll what you'll
see is the Penguins play this

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weekend.
Let's just take a look at the

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schedule.
Looks like they got Calgary at

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home and then their only Rd.
game in the next two 4-5 games.

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They play in Boston on Sunday.
Boston's playing OK right now.

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That would be an interesting
game.

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Calgary's not playing great at
all, but they could get goalie.

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Dustin Wolf is a very good
goalie.

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So if you're in town, maybe you
want to check out that game on

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Saturday.
You know, Steelers don't play

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till Monday.
So let's enjoy the Pittsburgh

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Penguins this weekend.
Hey, if you like what you're

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seeing, smash that subscribe
button.

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I love to give you not just
Pittsburgh Penguins, who are my

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absolute favorite team.
I like to show you how how

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they're trending and I hope I
did that tonight by showing you

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the standings.
If you do give me a like share

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this out with others.
And hey, you know, I'll be back

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on Saturday.
So until then, enjoy your

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hockey.
Way to go Pens tonight, big

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winners, 41 versus the New
Jersey Devils.

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See you in the next one.