giving a lot of credit in a lot of different directions for this team's 10-4-1 surge.

I'm going to start narrowing it down a little bit more.

It's going to talking about attitudes and approaches and systems and strategies.

Let's talk about Michael Bunting.

Good morning to you.

Good.

Tuesday morning from Detroit.

I'm Dan Kovachvich 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. It'll be Penguins versus Red Wings here tonight at Little Caesar's Arena. That's an 808 p.m. face-off. It's an hour later than you'd usually have a

weeknight face-off because the NHL doesn't like having anything interfere with the winner

classic, which is happening at 5 p.m. Eastern Time at Chicago's Wrigley Field between the Blackhawks and the Blues.

Bunting arrived in Pittsburgh, of course, as a part.

It's hard to tell how much of a part of the Jake Gensel trade.

The common perception at the time, you might recall, was that he was a veteran throw-in to make sure that the penguins weren't left completely hanging in their ongoing at the time pursuit of a Stanley Cup playoff spot, and that the real hall was going to be prospects like Vasili Panamarev, Villa Coivinen,

and we'll see what the future holds for those two kids. Obviously, they're not in the

NHL yet. And to be candid here, they haven't made any massive impact in the AHL yet either.

But Bunting, on the other hand, has 11 goals now through 37 games.

This despite having started off just ice cold and actually being a healthy scratch once.

11 goals, 10 assists 21 points. Out of those 11 goals, get this, seven of them have

come on the power play. Of those seven power play goals, all seven have come since the middle

of November, meaning, you know, when they started putting him out there on a regular basis.

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