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Strategic choices, personnel choices, player level choices. I'm going to take a break from that today. Good

morning to you. Good Thursday morning. I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports and this is Daily

Shot of Penguins. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or

baseball, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and

pirates in the same place that you found this. I just got back from Detroit and spending a couple of

days up there with the hockey team. I wasn't as put off by the four to two loss to the Red Wings a couple nights ago as some might have been,

mostly because I saw the way the penguins were playing, the way they were pushing as being a very real continuation of what I felt that they'd started in earnest Sunday in beating the Islanders here in Pittsburgh.

And if anything, I was actually in an odd kind of way encouraged that they could make that event repeatable,

because that's actually what has to happen to get this team

into the Stanley Cup playoffs again. They have to have a foundation where they can do something

like Sunday again or at least come close to Sunday again.

And outside of the first few minutes, and the Red Wings came out, all fired up.

Big crowd, new head coach, New Year's Eve, and they had the early juice, as Sullivan likes to call it.

But for 50 minutes after that, and they all agreed to this, I mean to a man from Sullivan to the

captain to everybody, they were really good, didn't get all the breaks, didn't have much of a

power play in a third period, and the Red Wings then followed up by converting on their own

power play, but they were really good.

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