Oh, they're going to make the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Now, the question is, what are they going to do when they get there?

Morning to you, good.

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

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Penguins 5. Panthers two yesterday at PPG Paints

Arena, making for an aggregate score, if you're into this sort of thing, since these

teams had a back-to-back weekend set here, of 14 to 6 in favor of the home guys.

And that left the Penguins with only four games to go at 40 wins and 96 points.

Just pause right here for a second.

Think about where your brain was related to this hockey team or even where

your heart was. And then somebody just pops up like some Nostradamus in your life who says,

hey, by the way, the Penguins are going to have 40 plus wins and 96 plus points this year.

Oh, they're going to have an 18 year old who sticks on the

roster all year. They're going to rob the bluejackets blind for a future 40 goal scorer,

and you'd be like, yes, please, where do I sign? Where do I sign? But yeah, the magic number,

and these are always kind of complicated to compute in the

NHL's environment, but the magic number is three, any combination of three points that the penguins,

actually, I don't even know that.

If they win Thursday night in Newark against the devils they're in. If they watch other teams lose in the three-day

break that they now have, whatever, they're going to be in, okay? There's my rich scientific stage

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