It's one thing to be told that you've got all this potential.

It's another thing to be told that you're playing well, but it's a totally different level for an ice hockey forward to just plain old light the lamp.

Good morning to you.

Good.

Thursday morning, I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Penguins.

It comes your way bright and early every weekday.

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same place that you found this. It'll be Penguins versus Predators at 208 p.m. Eastern

time over in Stockholm, Sweden. And there will be a second game to that global series Sunday morning at the

ungodly hour of 9 a.m. Eastern. But hey, there's an 11-day span with just two games, so

all concerned can catch up on all the necessary sleep when they come back with a four-day break between that Sunday game

in Stockholm and their home game next Friday against the Wild. At some point in that span,

in addition to the four points against a bad team that are available overseas, one might hope to see one of the team's most important

young players poke his head through, what's become something of a ceiling for him.

Villic Coyvenin doesn't have a goal yet. He's got two assists in his 10 games to date.

He's also registered 13 shots.

And if you want to get a little bit advanced on this,

in the limited time that he's been on the rank,

and it's not extensive, he's got 124 total minutes of ice time. He's actually led all of the

teams forwards in C4 percentage, and that's a simple breakdown of how many shot attempts your

team has versus the other team while you're on the ice. It's a possession indicator more

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