We don't always know what kind of performance we're going to get from this team in terms of execution and so forth.

We have a pretty good idea, though, at this stage.

What kind of passion is going to be behind it?

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Penguins 5 Bruins 4 in overtime with multiple exclamation points yesterday at PPG Paints Arena.

It was easily the win of the season in terms of importance,

but that's only going to become more and more true with each passing event.

But it might also have been the one that really stood out from the standpoint of just having the collective surge up, not just rise up, but surge up,

like all of them, to make a difference. I'm going to offer here three people or sets of people

that I feel made the biggest differences, but I'm not going to omit anybody either.

And I'll start in the most boring place possible with the fourth line.

I know, I know.

I could do it every single episode.

But when you see the way they carried play to the Bruins, when you see the way they backed off the

Bruins and kept them from doing that stuff that Marco Sturm and seemingly every Boston predecessor

for the past five decades has done, which is to defend, defend, defend. There's no way to ignore what

Blake Lazot, Connor Doer, and Noel Lachari did. And there's also no separating them when you

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