Listen, these games against the capitals meant nothing.

Not the one here, Saturday, not the one in Washington yesterday, not the one tomorrow night in St. Louis.

They just don't mean anything. I know you're looking at the uniform and you're looking at them out there and you see their faces. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Good morning to you. Good Monday morning. I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. And this is Daily Shot of Penguins. It comes your way bright and early every weekday if you're into

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Capitals 3,

Penguin Zero,

yesterday in

D.C.

And the score is all I have to say about that.

You care about one thing in such settings, and as that one thing played out,

what you came away with is that Connor Dewar is out week to week in the team's terminology.

For anyone who doesn't know what that means,

it's usually in the two to four week range.

If it's known that the player's going to be out like a month or more,

then what you'll hear from them is what you heard related to Blake Lazot, which was that it would be a minimum four weeks. That's the phrasing they used on

Lazot. That's the phrasing they used on Sidney Crosby when he came back from the Olympics.

So I don't know that I'd rule out or in, for that matter, doer for game one, being that that's coming up Saturday at the soonest.

Which leaves us, pending everybody being smart tomorrow night in St. Louis, with the following lineup for game one against the whoever's, presumably the flyers,

and I'll start up front.

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