Nobody likes being around anybody who's in a bad mood, right?

There are some exceptions.

There are some exceptions.

Good morning to you.

Monday morning, I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports and this is Daily Shot of Penguins.

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Penguins will be back on the ice practicing this morning up in Cranberry devils are in tomorrow night and if i sound

a little bit extra lively this morning it's because i've got a little bit of extra umph from being

around these guys that began in salt lake city it began with sid's overtime goal and the players getting together in the room afterward and looking at the four games that followed and saying, this is it. We can still control our own situation.

If we get a good or even a really, really good or great result out of these next four games before the NHL's two-week break for the four nations faceoff.

So what do they do?

Come home.

They have, you know, the whole hockey stereotype about your first game back after a long road trip and how sluggish it is.

Uh-uh.

Nope.

I know it was the Predators, who've been legitimately the NHL's most disappointing team,

but they took care of it.

Didn't get goals commensurate to the amount of shots and the amount of quality that went into them.

That's because Yusay Soros was really good.

But they eventually got the two they needed, and then Brian Rust's empty netter, and came out

their first shot out of the season. Alex And Elkovich with 25 saves there, and it was front to finish.

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