Kyle Dubas does a semi-regular interview session.

It's produced and arranged by the team.

It tends to offer pretty telling stuff if only because Dubus is very much a heart on the sleeve type. Good morning to you. Good. Friday

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Penguins versus Wild tonight.

PPG Paints Arena, that's a 708 p.m. faceoff.

First game around here in a dozen days.

The first game, obviously, since the two over in Sweden.

Now, most of Dubus's show tends to focus and understandably so on the

younger players, the system, more future-minded things. My favorite parts, since I just kind of have

this personality where I'm more interested in what I'm looking at right in front of me,

related to the parent club.

And never more than this season, as we've talked about this here.

He's got to deal with one track that has everything aimed at the post-Sid future and how the

penguins are going to be not just competitive but

contending. And then he's got this thing right here, which at least appears to be competitive,

if not yet contending. So I'm going to read to you a quote from Dubus on this program

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