I come here not to inform, not to entertain, but to openly wag a giant foam finger.

A lot of people's direction.

Good morning, too. Good Thursday morning. I'm Dan

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The Penguins are in Tampa, Florida tonight to take on the lightning.

The team that I still feel is the class of the Eastern Conference.

That'll be a 708 p.m. face off inside the whatever the heck they're calling the old Ice Palace this week.

Change his names all the time.

What doesn't change and seemingly hasn't forever is the quality and the depth of the Tampa Bay roster.

It's going to be a challenge.

Like a lot of these other games of late.

But you want to know something both Both sides have more than their fair share of upper crust

talent. And some of these guys are playing exceptionally well as individuals. You know,

the NHL does these three stars of the month. I don't know that those get a ton of attention,

but the ones that were put out yesterday

had Eric Carlson as the number two star of the month,

meaning for the whole league.

And number one was Nikita Kuturov,

even though they have pretty much the same number of points,

and one of them is a defenseman,

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