Do you think of this hockey team as being great defensively?

Do you think of this hockey team as having great goaltending?

No to both?

Man, have I got some counterpunches for you today? Good morning to you.

Good Thursday morning from Las Vegas.

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

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you found this. Penguins versus Golden Knights here at T-Mobile Arena is a 10.08 p.m. face-off,

and based on Dan Muse's steady rotation, one can presume that Artur Shilovs will be in goal, as opposed to Stuart Skinner, who was outstanding the other night in the shootout loss in Raleigh.

But the other thing that hold true is that whoever it is, they're not going to give up much, if at all.

Got some wild numbers for you.

And it's probably a good thing to hear coming off some of the frustration of the result against the hurricanes.

Everyone knows that the penguins have been outstanding going back to Christmas.

Rough stretch through the early portion of December and then just takeoff.

17 wins in 28 games, points in 23 of those 28 games.

But there's one category in which points in 23 of those 28 games.

But there's one category in which this team really rises above everyone else in that span.

And it's goals against.

The Penguins have given up 69 goals in those 28 games.

That's an average of 2.46 goals per game. And both of those figures are number one in the league.

Number one.

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