Tell you what, I ride Mike Sullivan as much as anybody when it comes to his

preference, his very, very clear preference to older players over younger players.

I'm not going to do that right now, not as it relates to the goaltending.

Good morning to you. Good Friday morning. I'm Dan Kovachvich now, not as it relates to the goaltending. Good morning to you.

Good Friday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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I'm back from Salt Lake City, and I'm back with a lingering impression and a powerful one at

that of a team that really, really, really wants to make something of this next week and change.

You are free to dismiss it.

So am I for that matter.

And I'll acknowledge to you that I might be unduly influenced by having been around them for the past couple of days up in those mountains.

But they mean it.

They're intense about this. And if you don't believe me

or you don't believe the broader group, then believe Sidney Crosby. He wants this. He wants

to make this happen. And he, like all the rest of them, understand that it has to happen within

the next four games. That means

predators and devils, two home games, then Rangers and Flyers next weekend, two road games,

and then poof, two weeks off, during which, according to a lot of different people around

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