Dan Muses has had a remarkable rookie year as an NHL head coach.

There's nothing that I could or would say to diminish it, let alone dismiss it.

He's in a different fight here because this one's a duel.

He lost the first of those duels.

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in the same place that you found this. Penguins versus Flyers game two is tonight at PPG

Paints Arena. That's a 708 p.m. faceoff, and it's one that offers an opportunity to all 18 skaters.

You'll note that I'll exempt Stuart Skinner from this to redeem themselves for the lousier

than it looked three to two loss Saturday night.

All of them can do better.

All of them can be sharper.

All of them can be smarter. And all of them need to

find all of that like right away because you don't want to go down two games to nothing to anybody.

But I don't know that there's a single individual in the Penguin's orbit who has more to show

tonight than Muse does. If we're keeping this real, and we go back over the 82 games that were played in the regular season,

you're not going to find a whole lot of negative terrain.

And as a result, you're not going to find a whole lot of precedent for how he'd handle it.

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